Kodsige, Koḍsīge: 2 definitions

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Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Kodsige in India is the name of a plant defined with Gisekia pharnaceoides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pharnaceum occultum Forsk.) (Latin pharnacion or pharnaceon, ii was applied by Plinius to a plant, a species of panax, so named after Pharnaces, the name of two kings of Pontus (among others).

2) Kodsige is also identified with Wrightia arborea It has the synonym Echites tomentosus Roth, nom. illeg. (etc.).

3) Kodsige is also identified with Wrightia tinctoria.

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

· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Aizoaceae
· Fl. Ludov. (1817)
· GisekiaMollugo
· J. Cytol. Genet. (1990)
· Mant. Pl. (1771)

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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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Languages of India and abroad

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Koḍsīge (ಕೊಡ್ಸೀಗೆ):—

1) [noun] the tree Cleistanthus collinus of Euphorbiaceae family.

2) [noun] the small sized, deciduous tree Holarrhena antidysentrica of Apocynaceae family.

3) [noun] the small-sized deciduous tree Wrightia tinctoria ( = W. rothii) of Apocynaceae family.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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