White-top: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)1) White-top in English is the name of a plant defined with Erigeron strigosus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Phalacroloma strigosa (Muhl. ex Willd.) Tzvelev (among others).
2) White-top is also identified with Lepidium draba It has the synonym Cardaria draba (L.) Desv. subsp. draba (etc.).
3) White-top is also identified with Parthenium hysterophorus It has the synonym Argyrochaeta parviflora Cav. (etc.).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (1950)
· Opera Botanica (1999)
· Rhodora (1987)
· Glimpses in Plant Research (1988)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1861)
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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.
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The Bhikkhus Rules (by Bhikkhu Ariyesako)
Part 4 - Advice From A Western Woman < [Appendix D]
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