Biology (plants and animals)

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

Kumakuma in Mali is the name of a plant defined with Carissa spinarum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Jasminonerium densiflorum Kuntze (among others).

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

· Flore Générale de l’Indo-Chine
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1830)
· Mémoires de l’Institut Scientifique de Madagascar, Série B, Biologie Végétale (1949)
· Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique. Botanique (1811)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1984)

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

kumakumā (कुमकुमा).—m ( A) A ball of thin glass filled with gulāla. It is thrown at one another by people on the hōḷī and other festive occasions.

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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.

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