Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Murkali in India is the name of a plant defined with Buchanania lanzan in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Buchanania latifolia Roxb..

2) Murkali is also identified with Buchanania latifolia.

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

· Flora Indica (1832)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· J. Sci. Food Agric. (1977)
· Journal of Environmental Biology (2001)
· Journal für die Botanik (1800)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1990)

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

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Murkali (ಮುರ್ಕಲಿ):—

1) [noun] the evergreen tree Garcinia indica of Guttiferae family.

2) [noun] its edible fruit.

3) [noun] the medium sized, deciduous tree Buhanania latifolia ( = B. angustifolia) of Anacardiaceae family.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Murkalimorave.

Full-text: Murgala, Murgal.

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