Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Karukkattan in India is the name of a plant defined with Ziziphus glabrata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices.

2) Karukkattan is also identified with Ziziphus trinervia It has the synonym Ziziphus trinervia Roth (etc.).

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

· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1824)
· Encycl. (1813)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae Orientalis (1821)
· Novae Plantarum Species (1821)

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

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Karukkaṭṭāṉ (கருக்கட்டான்) noun cf. கரிக் கட்டான். [karig kattan.] Jagged Jujube. See கருக்குவாய்ச்சி. [karukkuvaychi.]

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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