sal
Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
Noun
- Shorea robusta, a dipterocarpaceous tree.
- As the sals were cut in the lower foothill districts the loggers looked towards the mountains in their search for other hardwood timber. - 1989, Thomas Weber, Hugging the trees: the story of the Chipko movement, page 18:
Origin
From Hindi साल (sāl), from Sanskrit शाल (śāla).
Forms
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Noun geography, geology
- Alternative form of sial.
- Wegener bases his theory of the drifting continents on the assumption that there are two distinct levels to be taken into account, the surface of the masses of "sal" which form the continents and the surface of the...
Origin
Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as a blend of translingual Si (silicon) + Al (aluminum).
Forms
Noun chemistry, natural sciences
- Salt.
Origin
From Middle English sal, from Latin sal. Doublet of salt.
Derived
sal absinthii sal acetosellae sal alembroth sal ammoniac sal catharticus sal culinarius sal cyrenaicus sal de duobus sal diureticus sal duplicatum sal enixum sal gemmae sal jovis sal martis sal microcosmicum sal plumbi sal prunella sal Saturni sal sedativus sal seignette sal soda sal vitrioli sal volatile