A synthetic or artificial substance made to resemble amber in appearance or properties.
From 'amber' plus the suffix '-oid' (meaning 'resembling' or 'like'), similar to 'android' (resembling a human) or 'paranoid' (resembling paranoia).
The '-oid' suffix comes from Greek and is used in science to describe things that imitate the real thing—amberoid is fake amber, just as android means fake human, showing how languages build words systematically.
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