Amboyna

The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia · 1910 · p. 19

& a. [One of the Molucca Islands; also its capital.] As adjective. Amboyna wood: The wood of Plerospermum Indicum , one of the Byttneriads. |ăm-bread-a, s8. [In Fr. ambre = amber.] A kind of fictitious amber sold by Europe ans to the natives of Africa.