"Lac" is a word in ENGLISH
A resinous substance produced mainly on the banyan tree, but
to some extent on other trees, by the Coccus lacca, a scale-shaped
insect, the female of which fixes herself on the bark, and exudes from
the margin of her body this resinous substance.
Alt. of Lakh
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