Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kolanjana in India is the name of a plant defined with Zingiber zerumbet in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Amomum spurium Roem. & Schult. (among others).

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

· Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Botanique (1841)
· Notes from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (1984)
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of (1807)
· Systema Naturae, ed. 13 (1791)
· Guihaia (1982)
· FBI (1892)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

kōḷañjana (कोळंजन).—n ( P) Galangal root, Alpinia Galanga.

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kōḷāñjana (कोळांजन) [or कोळिंजन, kōḷiñjana].—n ( P) Galangal root, Alpinia Galanga.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

kōḷañjana (कोळंजन).—n Galangal root.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Koḷaṃjana (ಕೊಳಂಜನ):—[noun] = ಕೊಳಂಜ [kolamja].

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Ends with: Koshtakolanjana, Koshthakolanjana.

Full-text: Kulinjana, Kulanjana, Anjanatritaya.

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