Ambiguity: Although Bair has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Baira.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Bair in India is the name of a plant defined with Ziziphus jujuba in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ziziphus sativa Gaertner (among others).

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

· Systema Vegetabilium, ed. 15 (1819)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1768)
· Taxon
· J. Hebei Agric. Univ. (1987)
· Acta Horticulturae Sinicae (1986)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)

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

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Bair in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) enmity, animosity, hostility; -[bhava] (sense of) enmity/hostility; —[kadhana/nikalana] to pay tit for tat; to take revenge; —[thanana] to take up a hostile attitude, to strike a hostile posture, to be resolutely hostile; —[mola lena] to knowingly create bad blood, to antagonize somebody deliberately..—bair (बैर) is alternatively transliterated as Baira.

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See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with (+12): Baira, Bairada, Bairag, Bairaga, Bairagada, Bairagi, Bairagibil, Bairagini, Bairagitana, Bairagya, Bairak, Bairaka, Bairali bon, Bairamga, Bairan, Bairana, Bairasa, Bairasu, Bairat, Bairava.

Ends with: Satibair, Tarbair.

Full-text: Orapanem, Baira.

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Search found 4 books and stories containing Bair; (plurals include: Bairs). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

Trishashti Shalaka Purusha Caritra (by Helen M. Johnson)

Part 13: Conquest of the Gaṅgā by Bharata < [Chapter IV]

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The Skanda Purana (by G. V. Tagare)

Chapter 143 - Provocation of Jābāli < [Section 1 - Tīrtha-māhātmya]

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Triveni Journal

“Once There was a War” and < [July – September, 1989]

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Taliesin (by David William Nash)

Chapter IV - The Mythological Poems

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