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Definition of sal in English: salnoun sɑːlsæl A North Indian tree that yields hard, durable timber and dammar resin. 柳安,娑罗双树 Shorea robusta, family Dipterocarpaceae Example sentencesExamples - The muddy track ahead meanders into groves of majestic century-old sal trees splashed golden yellow in parts by the beautiful Indian Laburnum.
- Thus previously authoritarian government officials joined with previously suspicious villagers to successfully regenerate the degraded sal forests of southwestern Bengal.
- In one much celebrated case, tribals demolished a plantation of teak, a highly prized furniture wood, that was coming up on land previously under the sal tree, a species of far greater benefit to the local economy.
- Buddha was born as his mother grasped the branch of a sal tree, and he achieved Enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree.
- The sal forests of Garhwal and Kumaun, for example, were ‘felled in even to desolation.’
OriginLate 18th century: from Hindi sāl. RhymesAl, bacchanal, cabal, canal, Chagall, Chantal, chaparral, gal, grand mal, Guadalcanál, Hal, La Salle, mall, Natal, pal, pall-mall, petit mal, shall, Val Definition of sal in US English: salnounsalsæl A North Indian tree that yields hard, durable timber and dammar resin. 柳安,娑罗双树 Shorea robusta, family Dipterocarpaceae Example sentencesExamples - The sal forests of Garhwal and Kumaun, for example, were ‘felled in even to desolation.’
- Buddha was born as his mother grasped the branch of a sal tree, and he achieved Enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree.
- Thus previously authoritarian government officials joined with previously suspicious villagers to successfully regenerate the degraded sal forests of southwestern Bengal.
- In one much celebrated case, tribals demolished a plantation of teak, a highly prized furniture wood, that was coming up on land previously under the sal tree, a species of far greater benefit to the local economy.
- The muddy track ahead meanders into groves of majestic century-old sal trees splashed golden yellow in parts by the beautiful Indian Laburnum.
OriginLate 18th century: from Hindi sāl. |