Amber vs. Ambergris — What's the Difference?

Amber is fossilized tree resin that has been appreciated for its color and natural beauty since Neolithic times. Much valued from antiquity to the present as a gemstone, amber is made into a variety of decorative objects.

Ambergris ( or , Latin: ambra grisea, Old French: ambre gris), ambergrease, or grey amber, is a solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish colour produced in the digestive system of sperm whales. Freshly produced ambergris has a marine, fecal odor.

Hard translucent fossilized resin originating from extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in colour. It has been used in jewellery since antiquity.

A waxy grayish substance from the intestines of sperm whales that was used as a fixative and a fragrance in the manufacture of perfumes. It is found floating at sea or washed ashore and was formerly extracted from whale carcasses.

A hard, translucent, usually brownish-yellow fossil resin, used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects.

A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull grey or blackish color, produced in the intestines of the sperm whale. It is used in perfumes.

A brownish yellow.

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212° Fahrenheit, and is highly valued in perfumery.

Having the color of amber; brownish-yellow.

Waxy substance secreted by the sperm whale and found floating at sea or washed ashore; used in perfume

Made of or resembling amber

(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

A yellow-orange colour.

(British) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection when safe to do so.

The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

(uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.

Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

To preserve in amber.

To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

To take on the yellow colour of amber.

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.

Ambergris.

The balsam, liquidambar.

Consisting of amber; made of amber.

Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.

To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.

To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.

A deep yellow color;

A hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry

A medium to dark brownish yellow color