Biology (plants and animals)

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

Latapanasa in India is the name of a plant defined with Citrullus lanatus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Colocynthis amarissima Schrad. (among others).

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

· Prodr. Flora Capensis, being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (1800)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae (1826)
· Uses of plants by the Indians (1991)
· Catalogus Seminum et Sporarum in Horto Botanico Universitatis Imperialis Tokyoensis (1915)
· Prodromus Plantarum Capensium (1794)

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

Latāpanasa (लतापनस).—the water-melon.

Derivable forms: latāpanasaḥ (लतापनसः).

Latāpanasa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms latā and panasa (पनस).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Latāpanasa (लतापनस).—m.

(-saḥ) The water-melon. “taramuja”. E. latā a creeper, panasa the jack, to the fruit of which the melon may be compared in size.

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

Latāpanasa (लतापनस):—[=latā-panasa] [from latā] m. the water-melon, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Latāpanasa (लतापनस):—[latā-panasa] (saḥ) 1. m. Watermelon.

[Sanskrit to German]

Latapanasa 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.

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Partial matches: Lata, Panasa.

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