The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Warm winters and showery summers are the perfect conditions for the Boswellia sacra tree to produce the sap called frankincense.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
With a practised flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
Most of the Boswellia sacra trees grow on public land, but custom dictates that each forest is given to one of the local families to farm, and Wadi Dawkah is his turf.
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2010
Nothing less than the auri sacra fames could have induced such a congregation of human beings, from all nations and corners of the globe, in so inhospitable a latitude.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
It was interfered with by the too common cause of trouble in those days, the auri sacra fames, the accursed lust for gold.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Johnson, Willis Fletcher
