Biology (plants and animals)

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

Madhukarkati in India is the name of a plant defined with Carica papaya in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Vasconcellea peltata (Hook. & Arn.) A. DC. (among others).

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

· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1790)
· Florae Fluminensis Icones
· Verhandelingen van het bataviaasch genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen (1790)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1804)
· Eclogae Plantarum Rariorum (1811)
· Flore des Antilles (1824)

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

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Madhukarkaṭī (मधुकर्कटी).—

1) sweet lime, a kind of citron.

2) A kind of date.

Madhukarkaṭī is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms madhu and karkaṭī (कर्कटी).

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

1) Madhukarkaṭī (मधुकर्कटी):—[=madhu-karkaṭī] [from madhu] f. the sw°, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] the sw° cucumber, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Madhukarkati 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: Karkati, Madhu, Matu.

Starts with: Madhukarkatika.

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World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research

Conservation of key medicinal plants in Dimapur, Nagaland. < [2014: Volume 3, September supplementary issue 7]