Bhoj: 6 definitions

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Bhoj means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Hindi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Bhoj in India is the name of a plant defined with Betula utilis in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Betula bhojpattra var. latifolia Regel (among others).

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

· Prodromus Florae Nepalensis (1825)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1899)
· Plantae Wilsonianae (1916)
· Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, or ‘Descriptions and figures of a select number of unpublished East Indian plants’ (1830)
· Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou (1865)

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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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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

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

Bhoj (भोज्):—[from bhoga] mfn. in a-bhog-ghan q.v.

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Bhoj 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.

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Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Bhoj in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) a banquet; feast..—bhoj (भोज) is alternatively transliterated as Bhoja.

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Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Bhoj is another spelling for भोज [bhoja].—n. 1. feast; banquet; treat; 2. food; 3. reception; 4. hist. name of a celebrated king of Malva (supposed to have flourished about the end of the tenth or the beginning of the eleventh century and to have been a great patron of Sanskrit learning; he is also supposed to have been the author of several learned works);

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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