PONTIANAC

Proper noun

Pontianac

(obsolete) An older spelling of Pontianak.

Etymology

From Pontianac, an older spelling of Pontianak, a port city of Borneo, from which the resin was shipped, named for the ghostly pontianaks which supposedly once inhabited the site.

Noun

pontianac (countable and uncountable, plural pontianacs)

A fossil resin historically used in the production of some rubber, produced from the latex of Dyera costulata.

Synonyms

• dead Borneo, gutta jelutong, gambria, jelutong, bresk, fluvia

Source: Wiktionary