Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Meti in Kenya is the name of a plant defined with Hyphaene compressa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Hyphaene multiformis subsp. ambigua Becc. (among others).

2) Meti is also identified with Phoenix reclinata It has the synonym Fulchironia senegalensis Lesch. (etc.).

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

· Tabl. École Bot., ed. 3 (1829)
· Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) (1878)
· Enum. Pl. (1841)
· Fragmenta Botanica (1801)
· Trab. Centro Bot. Junta Invest. Ultramar (1967)
· Rev. Int. Bot. Appl. Agric. Colon. (1952)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Meti, for example diet and recipes, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, side effects, health benefits, extract dosage, 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: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Meṭi (मेटि):—and meṭī [varia lectio] for methi and meḍhī.

2) Meṭī (मेटी):—meṭi and meṭī [varia lectio] for methi and meḍhī.

[Sanskrit to German]

Meti 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Mēṭi (ಮೇಟಿ):—

1) [noun] a pillar erected as a monument of victory.

2) [noun] a pole set in the middle of the threshing floor (to which a series of cattle are tied one by the side of another to tread the harvested crop for separating the grain).

3) [noun] the act, practice of growing crops, producing food-grains; agriculture.

4) [noun] the land endowed to the chief of a village.

5) [noun] the quality of being superior, excellent; superiority.

6) [noun] a man of excellent qualities.

7) [noun] a leader.

8) [noun] a suprvisor who supervises the work of workers.

9) [noun] the central portion.

10) [noun] a farm implement having a cutting tool, long beam, which is drawn usu. by a pair of oxen, to cut, turn up and break up the soil; a plough.

11) [noun] the handle of a plough.

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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

Mēti (மேதி) noun perhaps from mēdas.

1. Buffalo; எருமை. மேதி யன்ன கல்பிறங் கியவின் [erumai. methi yanna kalpirang kiyavin] (பத்துப்பாட்டு: மலை [pathuppattu: malai] 111).

2. A buffalo-faced demon, slain by Durgā; எருமை முகங்கொண்டவனும் துர்க்காதேவி யாற் சங்கரிக்கப்பட்டவனுமான ஓர் அசுரன். (பிங்கலகண்டு) [erumai mugangondavanum thurkkathevi yar sangarikkappattavanumana or asuran. (pingalagandu)]

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Mēti (மேதி) noun < mēthī. Fenugreek; வெந்தயம். (தைலவருக்கச்சுருக்கம் தைல.) [venthayam. (thailavarukkachurukkam thaila.)]

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Mēti (மேதி) noun < mēthi. (யாழ்ப்பாணத்து மானிப்பாயகராதி [yazhppanathu manippayagarathi])

1. Stake at the threshing-floor to which oxen are tied; களத்திற் பொலியெருதுகளைக் கட்டுங்கட்டை. [kalathir poliyeruthugalaig kattungattai.]

2. Threshing-floor; நெற்களம். [nerkalam.]

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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.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Meṭī (मेटी):—n. end; conclusion; finish; completion;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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