Biology (plants and animals)

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

Churike in India is the name of a plant defined with Laportea interrupta in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Fleurea interrupta (L.) Wight, nom. illeg. (among others).

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

· Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschapen (1790)
· Mus. Bot. (1857)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1869)
· Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Occasional Papers (2001)
· Voyage autour du Monde, entrepris par Ordre du Roi, … éxécuté sur les Corvettes de S. M. l’Uranie et la Physicienne … Botanique (1826)
· Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (1995)

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

Churike (ಛುರಿಕೆ):—

1) [noun] a short, sword-like weapon with a pointed blade and a handle, used for stabbing; a stagger.

2) [noun] (dance) one of the thirty-five kinds of movements on the floor.

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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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Full-text: Churi.

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