Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Dharu in India is the name of a plant defined with Prunella vulgaris in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Brunella vulgaris L. (among others).

2) Dharu is also identified with Punica granatum.

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

· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1981)
· Opera Botanica (1999)
· Ethnobotany (2004)
· Journal de Botanique Société de Botanique de France (2004)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2009)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Dhāru (धारु).—a. Drinker (?); L. D. B.

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

Dhāru (धारु).—mfn. (-ruḥ-ruḥ-ru) Who drink, or sucks, a drinker, a sucker. E. dhe to drink, ru affix, form special. pānaśīle jaṭādharaḥ .

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

Dhāru (धारु).—[adjective] sucking.

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

Dhāru (धारु):—[from dhātu] mfn. sucking ([accusative]), [Atharva-veda iv, 18, 2] (cf. [Pāṇini 3-2, 159]).

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

Dhāru (धारु):—[(ruḥ-ruḥ-ruṃ) a.] Drinking, sucking; a drinker, sucker.

[Sanskrit to German]

Dharu 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.

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