Biology (plants and animals)

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

Gargatti in India is the name of a plant defined with Ficus asperrima in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Ficus asperrima Teijsm. & Binn..

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

· Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief.
· Ned. Kruidk. Arch. (1855)

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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

Gargatti (ಗರ್ಗತ್ತಿ):—[noun] the tree Ficus asperrima of Moraceae family, with soft wood, leaves of which are used for softening the surface of other woods, by rubbing on; sand-paper tree.

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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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