BOSWELLIA SERRATA

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Meaning:

East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense

Synonyms:

Boswellia serrata; salai

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Boswellia serrata" 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 ("Boswellia serrata" is a member of...):

Boswellia; genus Boswellia (genus of trees of North Africa and India that yield incense)

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