Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Soap nut tree in English is the name of a plant defined with Sapindus rarak in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Dittelasma rarak (DC.) Hiern (among others).

2) Soap nut tree is also identified with Sapindus saponaria It has the synonym Cupania saponarioides Sw. (etc.).

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

· The Flora of British India (1875)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1824)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1824)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788)
· Novorum Actorum Academia Caesareae Leopoldinae-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum (1843)
· Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica (1998)

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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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Partial matches: Soap, Tree, Nud.

Starts with: Soap nut tree of north india, Soap nut tree of south india.

Full-text: Ritha, Soap nut tree of north india, Soap nut tree of south india, Aratala, Phenila, Urdhvashodhana, Rishta.

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