Biology (plants and animals)

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

Gulunga in India is the name of a plant defined with Glycosmis pentaphylla in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Limonia arborea Roxb. (among others).

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

· Naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien (1896)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1824)
· Species Plantarum (1762)
· Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1795)
· Prodr. Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ Orient. (1834)
· FBI (1875)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

guluṅgā (गुलुंगा).—a (Properly kuluṅgā q. v.) Short and sturdy--man or animal.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

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