Alternative spellings of this word include Guchchhapatra.

In Hinduism

Ayurveda (science of life)

Source: Wisdom Library: Āyurveda and botany

Gucchapatra (गुच्छपत्र) is another name (synonym) for Tāla, which is a Sanskrit name for the plant Borassus flabellifer (doub palm). This synonym was identified by Narahari in his 13th-century Rājanighaṇṭu (verse 9.83), which is an Ayurvedic medicinal thesaurus.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and Drugs

Gucchapatra in the Sanskrit language is the name of a plant identified with Ruta chalepensis L. from the Rutaceae (Lemon) family having the following synonyms: Ruta bracteosa, Ruta fumariifolia. For the possible medicinal usage of gucchapatra, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.

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Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Gucchapatra (गुच्छपत्र).—the palm tree.

Derivable forms: gucchapatraḥ (गुच्छपत्रः).

Gucchapatra is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms guccha and patra (पत्र).

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

Gucchapatra (गुच्छपत्र).—m.

(-traḥ) The palm tree. E. guccha a cluster, and patra a leaf.

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

Gucchapatra (गुच्छपत्र):—[guccha-patra] (traḥ) 1. m. The palm tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Gucchapatra 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

Gucchapatra (ಗುಚ್ಛಪತ್ರ):—[noun] the tree Pandanus fascicularis ( = P. odoratissimus, = P. tectorius) of Pandanaceae family; screw pine 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Guccha, Patra.

Full-text: Tala.

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