Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Stinging nettle in English is the name of a plant defined with Laportea aestuans in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Urtica petiolata Steud. (among others).

2) Stinging nettle is also identified with Tragia volubilis It has the synonym Croton scandens Vell. (etc.).

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

· Etude Générale du Groupe de Euphorbiacées (1858)
· Flora of Jamaica containing descriptions of the flowering plants known from the island (1920)
· Mus. Bot.
· Abhandlungen der Königlichen Böhmischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (1845)
· Fl. Jamaic. (Linnaeus) (1759)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1866)

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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: Nettle.

Ends with: Giant stinging nettle, Red stinging nettle, Western stinging nettle, White stinging nettle.

Full-text: Western stinging nettle, Indian stinging-nettle, White stinging nettle, Red stinging nettle, Giant stinging nettle, Sisne, Leka-sisnu, Curaci, Curucurake, Lake-sisnu, Duralabha.

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