Biology (plants and animals)

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

Jalavalkala in India is the name of a plant defined with Pistia stratiotes in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Limnonesis commutata (Schleid.) Klotzsch (among others).

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

· Guide to the Poisonous and Irritant Plants of Florida. (1978)
· Revista del Museo de La Plata, Nueva Serie, Botanica (1971)
· AAU Reports (1990)
· Darwiniana (1941)
· Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin (1853)
· J. Asiat. Soc. (1966)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Jalavalkala, for example pregnancy safety, health benefits, chemical composition, extract dosage, side effects, diet and recipes, 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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Jalavalkala (जलवल्कल).—n.

(-laṃ) An aquatic plant, (Pistia stratiotes.) E. jala, and valkala bark, rind. jalānāṃ valkalaḥ iva . kumbhikāyām . (pānā) .

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

Jalavalkala (जलवल्कल):—[=jala-valkala] [from jala] n. ‘water-bark’, Pistia Stratiotes, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Jalavalkala (जलवल्कल):—[jala-valkala] (laṃ) 1. n. Pistia stratiotes.

[Sanskrit to German]

Jalavalkala 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Jala, Valkala.

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