Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Pappayam in India is the name of a plant defined with Carica papaya in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Vasconcellea peltata A. DC. (among others).

2) Pappayam is also identified with Cheilocostus speciosus It has the synonym Costus lamingtonii F.M. Bailey (etc.).

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

· Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae (1981)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie (1899)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1790)
· Systema Naturae, ed. 13 (1791)
· Costoideae.
· Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (1791)

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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

Pāppāyam (பாப்பாயம்) noun Costus shrub. See கோட்டம்³ [kottam³], 2. ((சங்கத்தகராதி) தமிழ்சொல்லகராதி [(sangathagarathi) thamizhsollagarathi])

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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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Starts with: Pappayambalam, Pappayampazham.

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