Pimdu, Piṃḍu, Pindu, Piṇḍu: 2 definitions

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Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Pindu in India is the name of a plant defined with Meyna spinosa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Vangueria miqueliana Kurz (among others).

2) Pindu is also identified with Tamilnadia uliginosa It has the synonym Gardenia pomifera Wall., nom. nud. (etc.).

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

· Synopsis Plantarum (1839)
· Bull. Jard. Bot. État (1928)
· Mauritius Inst. Bull. (1979)
· Flora of the British India (1880)
· Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. (1877)
· Bull. Bot. Surv. Ind. (1962)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Pindu, for example pregnancy safety, health benefits, side effects, chemical composition, extract dosage, diet and recipes, 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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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Piṃḍu (ಪಿಂಡು):—

1) [verb] to press (a fruit) hard from two oposite sides as to take the juice out; to sqeeze.

2) [verb] to twist (as a soaked cloth) to take water out.

3) [verb] to pour (a liquid) into.

4) [verb] (fig.) to make weak or weaker; to weaken.

5) [verb] to draw the milk from the udder of a cow etc.

6) [verb] (a cow, etc.) to give milk; to milk.

7) [verb] to press (a part of the body) to cause pain.

8) [verb] to annoy; to harm; to mollest.

9) [verb] to suck up; to absorb.

10) [verb] to wipe out; to eradicate; to destroy.

11) [verb] ಪಿಂಡಿ ಪಿೞಿ [pimdi pili] piṇḍi piłi to squeeze thoroughly; 2. to harm, molest.

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Piṃḍu (ಪಿಂಡು):—

1) [noun] a group of persons animals or things; a multitude; a gathering; a herd.

2) [noun] cooked, solid food formed into spherical shape, which can be held in one’s palm, for offering or offered to a god or manes.

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Piṃdu (ಪಿಂದು):—

1) [noun] the rear or hinder part of anything; back.

2) [noun] a going back, as from facing danger, taking up an arduous, responsible job, etc.

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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.

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