Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The resin of the salai-tree (Boswellia serrata) of India, where it is used for incense.

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  • Most of these modern-day weight-loss pills are a concoction of the following: herbs, botanicals, vitamins, minerals, caffeine, sometimes laxatives and ingredients like yohimbe, ma huang, medohar gugal, vinopectine and synephrine.

    rediff.com 2009

  • a wreath of flowers of the cotton tree; and _gugal_ or incense made of resin, sandalwood and other ingredients is burnt before him.

    The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala Robert Vane Russell 1894

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