Also -no. Tahitian name of the tree Calophyllum Inophyllum (see POON, TACAMAHAC); also attrib., as tamanu-resin, -tree.
1773. Cook’s Voy., in Hawkesworth, Voy., II. 216. The inhabitants of this island also dye yellow with the fruit of the Tamanu; but how the colour is extracted, we had no opportunity to discover.
1839. T. Beale, Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale, 349. I … engraved my name in the bark of a large tamanu tree.
1866. Treas. Bot., Tamanu, a green heavy resin from the Society Islands, obtained from Calophyllum Inophyllum.
1897. Daily News, 22 March, 8/2. The mountain forest of ‘tamanu.’
1902. R. Lovett, Chalmers, v. 142. A fine tamano tree grew close by.
