Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Yavaphala in India is the name of a plant defined with Dendrocalamus strictus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Bambusa verticillata Willd. (among others).

2) Yavaphala is also identified with Holarrhena pubescens It has the synonym Echites antidysenterica Roth, non (Linnaeus) Roxburgh ex Fleming (etc.).

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

· Annales Bogorienses (1958)
· Fitoterapia (2007)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2001)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1844)
· Fl. Siam. (1939)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1868)

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

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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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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Yavaphala (यवफल).—

1) a bamboo.

2) spikenard.

3) the Kuṭaja tree.

4) the Plakṣa tree.

5) an onion.

Derivable forms: yavaphalaḥ (यवफलः).

Yavaphala is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms yava and phala (फल).

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

Yavaphala (यवफल).—m.

(-laḥ) 1. A bamboo. 2. Indian spikenard. 3. A medicinal plant. (Wrightea anti-dysenterica.) 4. An onion. E. yava barley, phala fruit.

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

1) Yavaphala (यवफल):—[=yava-phala] [from yava] m. (only [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]) the bamboo cane

2) [v.s. ...] Nardostachys Jatamansi

3) [v.s. ...] Wrightia Antidysenterica

4) [v.s. ...] Ficus Infectoria

5) [v.s. ...] an onion (?).

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

Yavaphala (यवफल):—[yava-phala] (laḥ) 1. m. A bambu; Indian spikenard; onion.

[Sanskrit to German]

Yavaphala 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Yavaphala (ಯವಫಲ):—

1) [noun] the stem of various giant grass; a bamboo.

2) [noun] the tree Wrightia zeylanica ( = W. antidysentrica) of Apocynacoace family.

3) [noun] name of many ficus trees of Moraceae family a) Ficus virens ( = F. infectoria) of Moraceae family; b) Ficus arnottiana; c) Ficus benghalensis ( = F. indica); banyan tree; d) Ficus racemosa; fig tree.

4) [noun] the edible bulb of the plant Allium cepa of Liliaceae family, with a strong, sharp smell and taste; onion.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Yava, Phala.

Full-text: Yavapalam, Cavam.

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