Biology (plants and animals)

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

Bommaralu in India is the name of a plant defined with Ziziphus rugosa 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 latifolia Blanco (among others).

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

· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1824)
· Flora de Filipinas, ed. 2 (1845)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)
· FBI (1875)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1990)

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

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Bommaralu (ಬೊಮ್ಮರಲು):—[noun] the small-sized tree of shrub Ziziphus rugosa of Rhamnaceae family; medium jujube.

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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.

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