pontianac
English · Thesaurus
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
pontianac¹
Where it comes from
From Pontianac, an older spelling of Pontianak, a port city in West Kalimantan, from which the resin was shipped, named for the ghostly pontianaks which supposedly once inhabited the site.
noun pontianacs · pontianak
-
A fossil resin historically used in the production of some rubber, produced from the latex of Dyera costulata.
A firm of manufacturers to whom a sample of the Galactodendron latex was submitted considered that the material could be used in the rubber industry as a substitute for pontianac.
Similar: dead Borneo, gutta jelutong, gambria, jelutong, bresk, fluvia
Pontianac²
proper noun
- An older spelling of Pontianak city in West Kalimantan (Indonesia).
Talk about this word "pontianac." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/pontianac. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. pontianac. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/pontianac "pontianac." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/pontianac.Cite this
@misc{pontianac_2026,
title = {pontianac},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pontianac},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
