Paracita, Paracīta, Parācita, Para-acita: 8 definitions

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Paracita means something in Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, biology. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

Alternative spellings of this word include Parachita.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Paracita in India is the name of a plant defined with Sesbania sesban in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Emerus sesban (L.) Kuntze (among others).

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

· Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Mem. (1918)
· Cytologia (1998)
· Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici (1794)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany (1985)
· Flora of Jamaica, Containing Descriptions of the Flowering Plants Known from the Island (1920)

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

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Languages of India and abroad

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

paracīta (परचीत).—f A poetical barbarism for pracitī or pracīta. See ex. under duścinta.

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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.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Parācita (पराचित).—a. fostered or brought up by another.

-taḥ a slave.

Parācita is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms para and ācita (आचित).

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

Parācita (पराचित).—mfn.

(-taḥ-tā-taṃ) Cherished or fostered by a stranger. E. para another, ācita nourished.

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

Parācita (पराचित):—[from para] m. ‘nourished by an°’, a servant, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Parācita (पराचित):—[parā+cita] (taḥ-tā-taṃ) a. Cherished or fostered by a stranger.

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Paracita 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.

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