Nakku-kattai: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Nakku-kattai in India is the name of a plant defined with Dalbergia sissoo in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Amerimnon sissoo (Roxb. ex DC.) Kuntze (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Flora Indica; or, descriptions of Indian Plants (1832)
· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1981)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1825)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· The Civil and Natural History of Jamaica (1756)
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