Biology (plants and animals)

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

Okula in Congo is the name of a plant defined with Pistia stratiotes in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Apiospermum obcordatum (Schleid.) Klotzsch (among others).

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

· Guide to the Poisonous and Irritant Plants of Florida. (1978)
· Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (2003)
· Taxon (1983)
· Rapid Biological Inventories (2000)
· Flora Brasiliensis (1878)
· Flora BorealiAmericana (1803)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Okula (ओकुल).—A cake of flour; wheat slightly fried.

-lī An ear of wheat.

Derivable forms: okulaḥ (ओकुलः).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Okula (ओकुल).—m.

(-laḥ) A cake of flour.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Okula (ओकुल):—m. wheat fried slightly, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Okula (ओकुल):—(laḥ) 1. m. Cake of flower.

[Sanskrit to German]

Okula 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

Okuḷa (ಒಕುಳ):—

1) [noun] a unit of capacity equal to one koḷaga (an old measure).

2) [noun] that much expanse of land which requires one koḷaga seeds to be sown.

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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: Okula beluulechad, Okulaka, Okulam.

Ends with: Bokula, Gokula, Mokula, Nandacem Gokula, Nandacem-gokula, Nandagokula, Sa-gokula.

Full-text: Okula beluulechad.

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