Biology (plants and animals)

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

Drusallaka 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):

· 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 Environmental Biology (2001)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1990)
· Flora Indica (1832)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2000)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Drusallaka, for example pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, extract dosage, health benefits, side effects, chemical composition, have a look at these references.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Drusallaka (द्रुसल्लक).—a kind of tree (piyāla).

Derivable forms: drusallakaḥ (द्रुसल्लकः).

Drusallaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms dru and sallaka (सल्लक).

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

Drusallaka (द्रुसल्लक).—m.

(-kaḥ) A tree, (Chironjia sapida.) E. dru a thing or substance, sallakā the olibanum plant: a resinous plant.

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

Drusallaka (द्रुसल्लक):—[=dru-sallaka] [from dru] m. Buchanania Latifolia, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Drusallaka (द्रुसल्लक):—[dru-sallaka] (kaṃ) 1. n. A tree (Chironjia sapida), a resinous plant.

[Sanskrit to German]

Drusallaka 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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Partial matches: Dru, Shallaka.

Full-text: Shallaka.

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