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Fatty substance, resembling wax, found in the
stomach and intestines of the sperm whale. It
is found floating in warm seas, and was used
in perfumery as a fixative. Basically
intestinal matter, ambergris is not the
result of disease, but the product of an
otherwise normal intestine. The name derives
from the French ambre gris (grey amber).