stick lac
- noun
- Indian
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lac natural
- Before further refinement, stick lac is cleaned and crushed to remove impurities.
Examples
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The artisans gathered stick lac from the surrounding forests to use in dye making.
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Much of the world's stick lac is collected from India and Southeast Asia.
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The artisan used stick lac to create beautiful jewelry.
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Have you ever seen stick lac in its natural form?
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Much of the world's stick lac is collected from India and Southeast Asia.
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The artisans gathered stick lac from the surrounding forests to use in dye making.
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Before further refinement, stick lac is cleaned and crushed to remove impurities.
Synonyms
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9.9
A sticky natural substance made by insects used to make varnish, dyes, and sealing wax
A sticky material that insects make in Madagascar and people use for varnish and dye
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is transparently composed from 'stick' (a twig/rod) + 'lac' (natural resin), so 'stick lac' straightforwardly denotes lac in or on sticks — the raw form scraped from twigs. This is a literal material+form compound (no metaphor or idiomatic shift) and follows common noun–noun compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Stick lac comes from the resin tiny insects leave on twigs: the resin 'sticks' to the wood and is scraped off as a stick of lac. So, stick lac means lac in its 'natural' scraped-and-dried form before it is made into other products.