The Sanskrit term Dhanuṣpaṭa can be transliterated into English as Dhanuspata or Dhanushpata, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Dhanuspata in India is the name of a plant defined with Buchanania lanzan in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Buchanania latifolia Roxb..

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

· Taxon (1979)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1990)
· Journal of Environmental Biology (2001)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· J. Sci. Food Agric. (1977)
· Journal of Tree Sciences (1984)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dhanuṣpaṭa (धनुष्पट).—m.

(-ṭaḥ) A tree: see dhanuḥpaṭa. E. dhanus a bow, paṭa breadth.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dhanuṣpaṭa (धनुष्पट):—[=dhanuṣ-paṭa] [from dhanuṣ > dhanu] m. Buchanania Latifolia, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Dhanuṣpaṭa (धनुष्पट):—[dhanu-ṣpaṭa] (ṭaḥ) 1. m. A tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Dhanushpata in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Dhanuṣpaṭa (ಧನುಷ್ಪಟ):—

1) [noun] the middle-sized, deciduous tree Buchanania latifolia of Anacardiaceae family.

2) [noun] its edible fruit, the seeds of which is used in preparing sweets.

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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)

Partial matches: Dhanu, Dhanus, Tanu, Pata.

Full-text: Dhanuhpata.

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