The Sanskrit term Śīghrapuṣpa can be transliterated into English as Sighrapuspa or Shighrapushpa, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Shighrapushpa in India is the name of a plant defined with Sesbania grandiflora in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Coronilla coccinea (L.f.) Willd. (among others).

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

· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1806)
· Sylva Telluriana (1838)
· Supplementum Plantarum (1781)
· Species Plantarum.
· Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany (1985)

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

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Śīghrapuṣpa (शीघ्रपुष्प).—Agati Grandiflora (agasti).

Derivable forms: śīghrapuṣpaḥ (शीघ्रपुष्पः).

Śīghrapuṣpa is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms śīghra and puṣpa (पुष्प).

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

Śīghrapuṣpa (शीघ्रपुष्प):—[=śīghra-puṣpa] [from śīghra] m. Agati Grandiflora, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Shighrapushpa 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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Partial matches: Pushpa, Shighra.

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