Biology (plants and animals)

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

Godumba in India is the name of a plant defined with Citrullus lanatus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cucurbita caffra Eckl. & Zeyh. (among others).

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

· Prodr. Flora Capensis, being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (1800)
· Uses of plants by the Indians (1991)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae (1826)
· Prodromus Plantarum Capensium (1794)
· Catalogus Seminum et Sporarum in Horto Botanico Universitatis Imperialis Tokyoensis (1915)

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

Goḍumba (गोडुम्ब).—The water-melon.

Derivable forms: goḍumbaḥ (गोडुम्बः).

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

Goḍumba (गोडुम्ब).—mf.

(-mbaḥ-mbā) The water melon. f.

(-mbā) A kind of cucumber, (Cucumis madras patanus.) E. go the earth, tuvi to hurt, affix ka and ta changed to ḍa. gāṃ bhūmiṃ tumbati ardati . tuvi-ka pṛṣodarāḥ .

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

1) Goḍumba (गोडुम्ब):—[=go-ḍumba] [from go] m. = -ḍimba, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Goḍumbā (गोडुम्बा):—[=go-ḍumbā] [from go-ḍumba > go] f. = -ḍumbikā, [Caraka i, 1, 76 [Scholiast or Commentator]]

3) [v.s. ...] a coloquintida, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Goḍumba (गोडुम्ब):—[(mbaḥ-mbā)] 1. m. f. The watermelon. f. (mbā) Cucumber.

[Sanskrit to German]

Godumba 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

Gōḍuṃba (ಗೋಡುಂಬ):—

1) [noun] the trailing vine Citrullus vulgaris of Cucurbitaceae family, water melon plant.

2) [noun] its large, round or oblong, edible fruit with a hard, green rind and sweet, juicy, pink or red pulp containing many seeds; water melon.

3) [noun] the perennial vine Citrullus colocynthis ( = Cucumis colocynthis) of Cucurbitaceae family; colocynth.

4) [noun] its small, bitter fruit used in making a strong cathartic; colocynth.

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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: Dumba, Go, Tumpa.

Starts with: Godumbaiyarisi, Godumbayarisi.

Full-text: Godumbika, Godimba, Godumbe, Shrigalajambu, Pindila, Citra.

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