Biology (plants and animals)

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

Motirakanni in India is the name of a plant defined with Hugonia mystax in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Hugonia mystax Cav.) (from the Greek mystax, mystakos ‘moustache’..

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· Species Plantarum (1753)

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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

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Motirakaṇṇi (மொதிரகண்ணி) [motira-kaṇṇi] noun Climbing flax; மோதிரக்கண்ணி. [mothirakkanni.] (L.)

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Mōtirakkaṉṉi (மோதிரக்கன்னி) [mōtira-kaṉṉi] noun perhaps from idem. +. [K. mōdirakaṇṇī, M. mōdirakkaṇṇi.] Climbing flax, 1. shrub, Hugonia mystax; நீண்ட செடிவகை. [ninda sedivagai.] (W.)

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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.

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Partial matches: Kanni.

Full-text: Modirakkanni, Mothirakanni, Motirakkanni, Akori.

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Ancient Science of Life

Folk medicine of the irulas of coimbatore forests < [Volume 16 (issue 3), Jan-Mar 1997]

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World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research

Documentation of traditional medicinal plant uses in Pachaimalai, TN. < [2015: Volume 4, February issue 2]