Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kattampalam in India is the name of a plant defined with Spondias pinnata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Spondias mangifera Willd. (among others).

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

· Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany (1996)
· Supplementum Plantarum (1781)
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1990)
· Taxon (1982)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)

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

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Kaṭṭampalam (கட்டம்பலம்) noun < கட்டு- [kattu-] + அம்பலம். [ambalam.] Office of collecting revenue in a zemindary; வரி வசூலிக்கும் உத்தியோகம். [vari vasulikkum uthiyogam.] Ramnd usage

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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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