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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 incenseplay

  Familiarity information: SALAI used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SALAI (noun)


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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