succinum — meaning in English
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English meaning
- amber noun A hard, translucent, yellow-to-brown fossilized tree resin, used in jewellery and sometimes containing preserved insects.
Senses
succinum is used for these senses in English:
- amber A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]
amber — full definition
- noun A hard, translucent, yellow-to-brown fossilized tree resin, used in jewellery and sometimes containing preserved insects.
- noun A yellowish-orange colour, like that of the resin.
- noun The middle light of a traffic signal, signalling drivers to stop if it is safe to do so.
- adj Of a brownish-yellow colour.