Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Bhokara in India is the name of a plant defined with Casearia graveolens in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Casearia graveolens var. lintsangensis S.Y. Bao.

2) Bhokara is also identified with Cordia dichotoma It has the synonym Varronia sinensis Lour. (etc.).

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

· Flora Cochinchinensis (1790)
· Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences. Plant Sciences (1990)
· Acta Botanica Hungarica (1988)
· Florulae Insularum Australium Prodromus (1786)
· Acta Botanica Yunnanica (1983)
· Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany (1852)

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

bhōkara (भोकर) [or भोंकर, bhōṅkara].—f A tree, Cordia myxa. Grah. 2 n The fruit of it. 3 A pendant of an earring or a nosering.

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bhōkāra (भोकार).—n (bhōka A hole.) A contemptuous term for the mouth or face when distorted or expanded by bellowing, grinning, bawling, or yawning. v pasara, vāsa, vicaka, kāḍha.

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

bhōkara (भोकर).—n A pendant of an ear-ring or a nosering.

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bhōkāra (भोकार).—n A contemp- tuous term when distorted or expand- ed by bellowing.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Bhokarabali, Bhokaradolya.

Full-text: Shelu, Shleshmataka, Shleshmata, Cikatabhendi, Bahivara, Bahuvaraka, Bahuvara, Bahivaraka.

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