Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kalavige in India is the name of a plant defined with Carissa carandas in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Echites spinosus Burm.f. (among others).

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

· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1912)
· Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (1895)
· Cell and Chromosome Research (1986)
· Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (1993)
· Rev. Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1973)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1805)

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

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kaḷavige (ಕಳವಿಗೆ):—

1) [noun] a kind of plant.

2) [noun] its fruit.

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Kaḷavige (ಕಳವಿಗೆ):—[noun] the plant Helleborus niger of Ranunculaceae family; black hellebore.

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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)

Ends with: Doddakalavige.

Full-text: Doddakalavige.

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