Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kananari in India is the name of a plant defined with Prosopis cineraria in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Adenanthera aculeata Roxb. (among others).

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

· Darwiniana (1940)
· Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1976)
· Systema Naturae, ed. 10
· Systema Naturae, ed. 12 (1767)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1989)
· Australian Journal of Botany (1997)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kananari, for example health benefits, extract dosage, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, diet and recipes, side effects, 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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kānanāri (काननारि).—a species of the mimosa tree (śamī).

Derivable forms: kānanāriḥ (काननारिः).

Kānanāri is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms kānana and ari (अरि).

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

Kānanāri (काननारि).—m.

(-riḥ) The S'ami or S'ain tree, (Mimosa albida:) see samī. E. kānana, and ari enemy; injurious to a wood; being a thorny tree.

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

Kānanāri (काननारि):—[from kānana] m. ‘forest-enemy’, a species of the Mimosa-tree (śamī), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Kānanāri (काननारि):—[kānanā+ri] (riḥ) 2. m. Mimosa albida.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kananari 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

Kānanāri (ಕಾನನಾರಿ):—[noun] = ಕಾನನಾಂತಕ [kananamtaka]1.

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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: Kanana, Ari.

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