Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kevika in India is the name of a plant defined with Hymenodictyon orixense in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cinchona thyrsiflora Roxb., nom. nud. (among others).

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

· Taxon (1982)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Proceedings, Indian Academy of Sciences. Section B, Biological Sciences (1981)
· Plants of the Coast of Coromandel (1799)
· Bot. Descr. Swietenia (1793)
· Species Plantarum (1753)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kevika, for example pregnancy safety, health benefits, side effects, diet and recipes, chemical composition, extract dosage, 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: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Kevikā (केविका).—f.

(-kā) The name of a flower, commonly Keber.

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

Kevikā (केविका):—f. Name of a flower (commonly kevera), [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Kevikā (केविका):—(kā) 1. f. The flower kever.

[Sanskrit to German]

Kevika 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Full-text: Alimohini, Kevi, Kavika.

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