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salai

salai

9.9
A tree from India that produces a resin used as incense and medicine
  • noun
  • Indian
: salai
  • During the ceremony, they burned salai incense to create a calming atmosphere.

Examples

  • The resin from the salai tree is often used in traditional medicine for its healing properties.

  • The salai tree is known for its aromatic resin, which is popular in Ayurvedic treatments.

  • Over the month of November, this blog will have a lot more activity than I’ve managed on my own—this past month, especially (I still owe you guys a piece on Salacious Salai!), and will have a lot more juice and variety than just my voice.

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Synonyms

Boswellia
vssalai
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A group of trees that make frankincense resin used as incense

is a single species within that broader genus
Boswellia serrata
vssalai
  • Specialized
9.9

A tree from India that makes a fragrant resin used as medicine and incense

is the everyday name rather than the formal scientific name

Surface Forms

salai singular
salais plural

Etymology

Salai comes from India and is the local name in Hindi and Sanskrit for a tree that gives a fragrant resin used as incense and medicine. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine the sweet smoke of salai in a prayer ceremony, because today salai means that tree or its resin.