Anîme

Anîme, a resin exuding from the trunk of the Hymenæa courbaril, a large tree of the natural order Leguminosæ, sub-order Cæsalpineæ, a native of New Spain and Brazil. It somewhat resembles copal, to which, in France, the name résine animé is applied, but is more easily soluble in alcohol.—The name anime, or gum anime, is, however, also given in Britain to a resin called in India copal, the produce of Vateria indica, a tree of the natural order Dipteraceæ; whilst the copal of Madagascar is produced by Hymenæa verrucosa, and that of Brazil in great part by several species of Hymenæa, a tree of which genus is also regarded as the probable source of the copal of Mexico.