Biology (plants and animals)

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

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

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

· The Gardeners Dictionary (1768)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)
· Acta Horticulturae Sinicae (1986)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788)
· The Gardeners Dictionary (1754)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Kuvali, for example diet and recipes, side effects, chemical composition, 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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Kuvalī (कुवली).—(= kolī; see badarī); कुवली कुवलम् । बदरी बादरम् (kuvalī kuvalam | badarī bādaram) Mahābhārata on P.IV.3.13.

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Kuvali (ಕುವಲಿ):—[noun] = ಕುವಲ- [kuvala-] 1 & 2.

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Kuvaḷi (ಕುವಳಿ):—[noun] = ಕುವಲ- [kuvala-] 1 & 2.

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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.

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Kuvali (குவலி) noun < kuvalī. Jujube tree. See இலந்தை. (சூடாமணிநிகண்டு) [ilanthai. (sudamaninigandu)]

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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)

Starts with: Kuvalitam.

Ends with: Cakuvali, Cinukkuvali, Curukkuvali, Itukkuvali, Karukkuvali, Korukkuvali, Kurakkuvali, Kurankuvali, Kurukkuvali, Mutukkuvali, Nakkuvali, Nankuvali, Patakuvali.

Full-text: Kuvala, Kulvali, Badara, Badarika.

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