Biology (plants and animals)

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

Cambu in India is the name of a plant defined with Pennisetum glaucum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Setaria humifusa Dumort. (among others).

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

· Amer. Journal of Botany (1977)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1931)
· J. Cytol. Genet. (1988)
· Annales Botanicae Systematicae (1861)
· Essai d’une Nouvelle Agrostographie (1812)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or a catalogue … (1814)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Cambu, for example chemical composition, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, side effects, 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

cambū (चंबू) [or भू, bhū].—m (The ca is tsh.) A metal vessel with a belly and a tapering neck, a goglet. cambū jhālā A phrase used of one silenced, posed, confuted.

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

cambū (चंबू).—m A metal vessel with a belly and a tapering neck, a goblet.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Caṃbu (ಚಂಬು):—

1) [noun] a small, round water container with a slightly narrow neck, made of metal, usu. copper.

2) [noun] the globular metal cover for the pyramidal tower of a temple.

3) [noun] 'the reddish-brown, malleable, ductile, metal that is corrosion-resistant and an excellent conductor of electricity and heat: symbol, Cu; copper.'

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Cambuca, Cambucavritta, Cambui ferro, Cambukuttaga, Cambukuttiga, Cambulakaravidye, Cambuli, Cambulikayi, Cambulo, Cambutivapi, Cambuy.

Full-text: Cambon, Campai.

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