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Definition of Boswellia serrata
1. Noun. East Indian tree yielding a resin used medicinally and burned as incense.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boswellia Serrata
Literary usage of Boswellia serrata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Sir Joseph Paxton (1849)
"A subsequent examination of the tree has proved it to be the plant known to
botanists under the name of boswellia serrata. ..."
2. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"... while Mr. Colebrooke has satisfactorily proved that the "boswellia serrata
affords that which comes from India. This species of Boswellia, ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"It yields the odoriferous gum resin called " pu- gal." — Powell, ¡laml-book.
Econ. Prod. Punjab. Roxb. Rohde MS. S. See Olibanum. boswellia serrata.— Stach. ..."
4. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by Sir William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"On the lower parts of the hills the characteristic trees are boswellia serrata,
Sterculia urens, S. villosa, Dalbergia paniculata, Anogeissus latifolia, ..."
5. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"boswellia serrata, Roxb. P Salep from Orchis roots of various species. ...
boswellia serrata, Roxb. Carum nigrum, a var. of C- Garni, Linn. ..."
6. Flora Medica: Containing Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal by George Spratt (1830)
"... refer our readers for a description of the gum olibanum and its uses to our
next article. boswellia serrata. Serrated Boswellia, or Gum Olibanum Tree. ..."
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