Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kalingada 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 Cucumis vulgaris E.H.L. Krause (among others).

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

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

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kaliṅgaḍa (कलिंगड).—f A tree, Gardenia Enneandra. Grah.

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kāliṅgaḍa (कालिंगड) [or ण, ṇa].—n (kāliṅgī S) A water-melon.

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kāliṅgaḍā (कालिंगडा).—m A Rag or musical mode. See rāga.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

kaliṅgaḍa (कलिंगड) [-ṇa, -ण].—n The water-melon.

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kāliṅgaḍa (कालिंगड) [-ṇa, -ण].—n A water-melon.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kāḷiṃgada (ಕಾಳಿಂಗದ):—

1) [noun] the plant Cucumis melo (= C. aromaticus, = C. utilissimus) of Cucurbitaceae family; musk melon plant.

2) [noun] its round or oblong fruit with thick, ribbed rind, sweet, juicy flesh and musky odour; musk melon.

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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)

Starts with: Kalingadatta.

Full-text: Kalingadi, Praya, Astai.

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