Rehan: 2 definitions

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Rehan means something in Hindi, 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.

Ambiguity: Although Rehan has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Rehana.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Rehan in Arabic is the name of a plant defined with Ocimum basilicum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Plectranthus barrelieri Spreng. (among others).

2) Rehan in India is also identified with Litsea glutinosa It has the synonym Litsea sebifera Pers. (etc.).

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

· Beskr. Guin. Pl. (1827)
· Revue de Cytologie et de Biologie Végétales, le Botaniste (1984)
· Philippine Journal of Science (1911)
· Acta Phytotaxonomica Sinica (1984)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)

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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

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Rehan in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) mortgage, pawn; ~[dara] mortgagee; ~[nama] mortgage-deed..—rehan (रेहन) is alternatively transliterated as Rehana.

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