Biology (plants and animals)

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

Cakulatcam in India is the name of a plant defined with Enicostema axillare in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Slevogtia maritima Dalzell (among others).

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

· Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique… Botanique (1793)
· Companion to the Botanical Magazine (1836)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Bijdragen tot de flora van Nederlandsch Indië (1825)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1845)
· Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany (1850)

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

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Cakulāṭcam (சகுலாட்சம்) noun < śakulākṣaka. White Bermuda grass. See வெள்ளறுகு. (வைத்திய மலையகராதி) [vellarugu. (vaithiya malaiyagarathi)]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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