A variant or alternative name for certain aromatic tree species or resins from Southeast Asia, sometimes used in historical texts and trade records.
A variant spelling or regional name derived from Malay and other Southeast Asian languages, likely related to 'altincar' through linguistic variation and transliteration from non-Latin scripts.
Before standardized English spelling existed, merchants and traders spelled the same exotic words dozens of different ways depending on which language they heard it from—'altininck' is probably a Dutch or Portuguese trader's version of the same plant that others called 'altincar.'
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