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SALAI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does salai mean?
• SALAI (noun)
The noun SALAI has 1 sense:
1. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense
Familiarity information: SALAI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Boswellia serrata; salai
Hypernyms ("salai" is a kind of...):
incense tree (any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense)
Holonyms ("salai" is a member of...):
Boswellia; genus Boswellia (genus of trees of North Africa and India that yield incense)
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