gamboge noun. [gam'bǝʊʒ, -'bu:ʒ] Also (earlier) in Latin form gambaugium M17.
[mod. Latin gambaugium var. of cambugium etc., from Cambodia a country in SE Asia.]
A gum resin used as a bright yellow pigment and as a purgative, obtained from various eastern Asian trees of the genus Garcinia (family Guttiferae).

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