Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Kantakadruma in India is the name of a plant defined with Bombax ceiba in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Gossampinus malabarica (DC.) Merr. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1824)
· FBI (1874)
· Lingnan Science Journal (1928)
· Hortus Malabaricus
· Taxon (1961)
· Taxon (1979)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kantakadruma, for example chemical composition, diet and recipes, side effects, health benefits, pregnancy safety, extract dosage, have a look at these references.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kaṇṭakadruma (कण्टकद्रुम).—

1) a tree with thorns, a thorny bush; भवन्ति नितरां स्फीताः सुक्षेत्रे कण्टकद्रुमाः (bhavanti nitarāṃ sphītāḥ sukṣetre kaṇṭakadrumāḥ) Mṛcchakaṭika 9.7.

2) the Śālmali tree or silk-cotton-tree (Mar. sāṃvarī).

Derivable forms: kaṇṭakadrumaḥ (कण्टकद्रुमः).

Kaṇṭakadruma is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kaṇṭaka and druma (द्रुम).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kaṇṭakadruma (कण्टकद्रुम).—m.

(-maḥ) The Salmali or silk cotton tree. E. kaṇṭaka, and druma a tree.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Kaṇṭakadruma (कण्टकद्रुम):—[=kaṇṭaka-druma] [from kaṇṭaka > kaṇṭa] m. a tree with thorns, a thorn bush, [Bhāgavata-purāṇa; Mṛcchakaṭikā]

2) [v.s. ...] Bombax Heptaphyllum, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kaṇṭakadruma (कण्टकद्रुम):—[kaṇṭaka-druma] (maḥ) 1. m. Silk-cotton tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kantakadruma in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Druma, Kantaka.

Full-text: Kantaka.

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