Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Karinkara 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).

2) Karinkara is also identified with Stereospermum chelonoides It has the synonym Bignonia suaveolens Roxb.) (Bignonia L., named in honor of Abbé Jean Paul Bignon, 1662–1743, librarian to King Louis XIV. See Carl Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 622–625. 1753 and Genera Plantarum Ed. 5. 273. 1754, Genera Plantarum 137. 1789, Henry C. Andrews, The Botanist’s Repository. 2: t. 86. London 1800. (etc.).

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

· Bibliothèque Universelle de Genève (1838)
· Histoire des Plantes (1888)
· Supplementum Plantarum Systematis Vegetabilium Editionis Decimae Tertiae (1782)
· Linnaea (1833)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1805)
· Rev. Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1973)

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

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