salai

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

incense tree - any of various tropical trees of the family Burseraceae yielding fragrant gums or resins that are burned as incense

Boswellia, genus Boswellia - genus of trees of North Africa and India that yield incense

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Summary: Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], Jan 26 (ANI): About 10-foot long stretch of Anna Salai road caved in Tamil Nadu's Chennai city on Friday.

Chennai's Anna Salai road caves in

"In that layer we can see that she was not smiling and joyful but looked melancholic and sad," he said, adding the second model was Gian Giacomo Caprotti -- Da Vinci's male apprentice, known as Salai.

Art detective says female and male model used for Mona Lisa face

The apprentice Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known as Salai, worked with Leonardo for more than two decades starting in 1490.

Male model behind Mona Lisa: expert

ANNA SALAI, agonisingly close to giving Godolphin's new boy Mahmood Al Zarooni a first European Group 1 when edged out in the Irish 1,000 Guineas, is fancied to make amends.

Anna all ready to grab those big-race spoils

and squeezed up the rail to edge out Ahmed Ajtebi on Anna Salai, who has recently joined Al Zarooni in Newmarket from Andre Fabre.

Bethrah wins Guineas thriller

Salai guggal is the gum resin from the tree Boswellia serrata.

Salai guggal and boswellic acids: their effects on the arachidonic acid cascade

Chennai, June 27 ( ANI ): At least 30 people were injured when a Metropolitan Transport Corporation bus fell off Gemini flyover on the arterial Anna Salai here on Wednesday.