Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Ancani in India is the name of a plant defined with Aristolochia bracteata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices.

2) Ancani is also identified with Nymphaea nouchali It has the synonym Nymphaea emirnensis Planch. (etc.).

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

· J. Cytol. Genet. (1971)
· Fragm. (Mueller) (1861)
· Flora Indica (1768)
· Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress Association (1993)
· Observationes Botanicae (Retzius) (1791)
· Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica (1994)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Ancani, for example chemical composition, diet and recipes, health benefits, side effects, pregnancy safety, extract dosage, 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.

Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

āñcaṇī (आंचणी).—f See āñca Sig. II. and III. 2 C A dish of rice, turmeric, cocoanuts &c., presented by women to the women of a house in which a marriage &c. is under celebration. 3 A churn-rope.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

āñcaṇī (आंचणी).—f Heating, melting. Care.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Añcaṉi (அஞ்சனி) noun < añjana.

1. Iron-wood tree. See காயா. (பிங்கலகண்டு) [kaya. (pingalagandu)]

2. Káns. See நாணல். [nanal.] (W.)

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Ancanimuli.

Ends with: Atancani, Ayamcani, Cancani, Cangakancani, Curutirancani, Irancani, Kalancani, Kancani, Khancani, Mancani, Manorancani, Nirancani, Nyancani, Pancani, Pirancani, Rancani, Sancani, Vancani.

Full-text: Anjani.

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