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Biology (plants and animals)

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

Narttaki in India is the name of a plant defined with Onosma echioides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cerinthe echioides L..

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

· Prop. Brit. Bot. (1929)
· Ber. Schweiz. Bot. Ges. (1975)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Species Plantarum (1762)
· Taxon (1978)
· Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. (1924)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

narttakī (नर्त्तकी).—f S A female dancer or singing girl, an actress.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Narttaki (நர்த்தகி) noun Feminine of நர்த்தகன். [narthagan.]

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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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