"Japan tallow" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Based on the (more common) name Japan wax, this term was coined because the substance is not actually a wax.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Japan tallows",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Japan tallow (countable and uncountable, plural Japan tallows)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Interstate Druggist - Volume 44, page 150:",
          "text": "Japan tallow and beeswax were mixed in various proportions and the melting points, solidifying points and densities of the mixtures observed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute - Volume 19, page 520:",
          "text": "France imports annually from Japan considerable quantities of Japan tallow, derived from the fruits of Rhus succedanea.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Tadashi Inumaru, Mitsukuni Yoshida, The Traditional Crafts of Japan: Wood and bamboo:",
          "text": "In place of traditional methods in which materials such as gesso, yellow ocher, powdered earth, liquid glue, and Japan tallow were used to obtain a gloss, and transparent lacquer was rubbed into the wood to protect it, materials such as artificially produced varoids and lacquer came into widespread use.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Japan wax."
      ],
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        [
          "Japan wax",
          "Japan wax#English"
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      ],
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        {
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          "word": "Japan wax"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Japan tallow"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Based on the (more common) name Japan wax, this term was coined because the substance is not actually a wax.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Japan tallows",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English uncountable nouns",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Interstate Druggist - Volume 44, page 150:",
          "text": "Japan tallow and beeswax were mixed in various proportions and the melting points, solidifying points and densities of the mixtures observed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1921, Bulletin of the Imperial Institute - Volume 19, page 520:",
          "text": "France imports annually from Japan considerable quantities of Japan tallow, derived from the fruits of Rhus succedanea.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Tadashi Inumaru, Mitsukuni Yoshida, The Traditional Crafts of Japan: Wood and bamboo:",
          "text": "In place of traditional methods in which materials such as gesso, yellow ocher, powdered earth, liquid glue, and Japan tallow were used to obtain a gloss, and transparent lacquer was rubbed into the wood to protect it, materials such as artificially produced varoids and lacquer came into widespread use.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of Japan wax."
      ],
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          "Japan wax",
          "Japan wax#English"
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}