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Biology (plants and animals)

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

Rehtakai in Pacific is the name of a plant defined with Chrysopogon aciculatus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Rhaphis acicularis (Retz. ex Roem. & Schult.) Desv. (among others).

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

· Cyperaceae et Gramineae Siculae (1820)
· Grasses of Burma (1960)
· Obs. Bot. (1789)
· Plantae Junghuhnianae (1854)
· A list of the grasses of N.W. India, indigenous and cultivated (1883)
· Petite Flore de l’Ouest-Africain (1954)

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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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