The Sanskrit terms Lohitapuṣpaka and Lohitāpuṣpaka can be transliterated into English as Lohitapuspaka or Lohitapushpaka, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Lohitapuspaka in India is the name of a plant defined with Punica granatum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices.

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

· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2009)
· Ethnobotany (2004)
· New Botanist (1981)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1981)
· Species Plantarum (1753)

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

Lohitapuṣpaka (लोहितपुष्पक) or Lohitāpuṣpaka (लोहितापुष्पक).—the granate tree.

Derivable forms: lohitapuṣpakaḥ (लोहितपुष्पकः), lohitāpuṣpakaḥ (लोहितापुष्पकः).

Lohitapuṣpaka is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms lohita and puṣpaka (पुष्पक). See also (synonyms): lohinīpuṣpaka.

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

1) Lohitapuṣpaka (लोहितपुष्पक):—[=lohita-puṣpaka] [from lohita > loha] mfn. r°-flowering, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] m. the granate tree, [Bhāvaprakāśa]

[Sanskrit to German]

Lohitapushpaka 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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Pushpaka, Lohita.

Full-text: Lohinipushpaka.

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