Biology (plants and animals)

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

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

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

· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Casuarinaceae.
· Journ. Arn. Arb. (1950)
· Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (1982)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Allg. Naturgesch. (1841)

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

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Kaṭṭati (कट्टति).—(corresponds to Pali kaḍḍhati, Sanskrit kṛṣ-; sometimes associated with forms of kṛṣ in [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit], see be- low; occurs also with cpds., ā-, ut-, o- (ava-), niṣ-, saṃ-; Senart reads always kaḍḍh-, but his mss. invariably kaṭṭ- [Page165-a+ 71] (except once or twice kaṭṭh-, doubtless a graphic variant); ākaṭṭati occurs also once in Megh; -kaḍḍh-, on the other hand, is recorded in Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, see s.vv. ākaḍḍhana, vikaḍḍhate), draws, pulls; takes away, removes: Mahāvastu i.217.7 (devīye nāvāyānena) kaṭṭīyantiye while the queen was being drawn along by a boat; ii.75.3 dvārato sapta padāṃ (acc. pl.) kaṭṭito, compare line 5 sapta padāni apakarṣitvā; line 11 sapta padāni kaṭṭito; 241.18 tataḥ paṃjarehi (abl.) kaṭṭiyanti (birds); 429.15 (rājagṛhāto) kaṭṭīyamānī (see s.v. ākaṭ- ṭati). Note that all these forms are passive.

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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.

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Kaṭṭāṭi (கட்டாடி) noun < கட்டு [kattu] + ஆடு-. [adu-.] (J.)

1. He who is temporarily possessed of a kind of divination for the purpose of uttering oracles, inferior to caṉṉatam; குறிசொல்வோன். [kurisolvon.]

2. Member of the caste of washermen, many of whom have been noted for their power of divination; வண்ணான். [vannan.]

3. Chief of the washerman tribe; வண்ணார் தலைவன். [vannar thalaivan.]

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Kaṭṭaṭi (கட்டடி) [kaṭṭaṭittal] intransitive verb < கட்டு [kattu] +. To thresh or beat out the grain from sheaves of paddy; அரிந்த நெற்கதிர்களை யடித்தல். [arintha nerkathirkalai yadithal.] Local usage

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Kāttaṭi (காத்தடி) [kā-taṭi] noun < கா [ka] +. Pole for carrying burdens; காவடித்தண்டு. [kavadithandu.] (W.)

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Ka, Tati.

Starts with: Kattaticci, Kattatiyar.

Ends with: Akattati, Avakattati, Nishkattati, Okattati, Parikattati, Samkattati, Ukkattati, Utankattati, Utkattati.

Full-text: Avakattati, Kilkkatu, Kelvimulam, Vikaddhate, Akaddhana, Utankattati, Samkattati, Nishkattati, Katavati, Utkattati, Akattati, Okattati.

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