The Sanskrit term Aśmapuṣpa can be transliterated into English as Asmapuspa or Ashmapushpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Ashmapushpa in India is the name of a plant defined with Altingia excelsa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Liquidambar altingiana Blume.

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

· Verhandelingen van het bataviaasch genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen (1790)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1977)

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

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Aśmapuṣpa (अश्मपुष्प).—bitumen, benzoin (śilārasa).

Derivable forms: aśmapuṣpam (अश्मपुष्पम्).

Aśmapuṣpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms aśman and puṣpa (पुष्प).

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

Aśmapuṣpa (अश्मपुष्प).—n.

(-ṣpaṃ) Benzoin, (Styrax benzoin.) E. aśman stone, and puṣpa a flower: supposed to exude from rocks.

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

Aśmapuṣpa (अश्मपुष्प):—[=aśma-puṣpa] [from aśma > aśna] n. benzoin (styrax), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Aśmapuṣpa (अश्मपुष्प):—[aśma-puṣpa] (ṣpaṃ) 1. n. Benzoin.

[Sanskrit to German]

Ashmapushpa 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

Aśmapuṣpa (ಅಶ್ಮಪುಷ್ಪ):—[noun] any of various classes (esp. Bryopsida) of very small, green bryophytes having stems with leaflike structures and growing in velvety clusters on rocks; moss.

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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: Pushpa, Asman, Asma.

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