Elephant's trunk: 1 definition
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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Elephant's trunk in English is the name of a plant defined with Pachypodium namaquanum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Adenium namaquanum Wyley ex Harvey.
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Edwards’s Botanical Register
· Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries (1836)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1869)
· Systema Vegetabilium (1819)
· A Flora of North America (1838)
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Full-text (+49): Shucika, Sthulahasta, Agrahasta, Karashikara, Pushkara, Vamathu, Hastishunda, Hasta, Hastatala, Anguli, Gandusa, Shundadanda, Hatthilingasakuna, Karnika, Sunda, Sonda, Karagra, Hastihasta, Kara, Pokkhara.
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Kashyapa Shilpa-shastra (study) (by K. Vidyuta)
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