Sudu, Suḍu: 2 definitions

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Sudu means something in 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.

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Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Sudu in Malaysia is the name of a plant defined with Euphorbia antiquorum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Euphorbia arborescens C. Sm. (among others).

2) Sudu is also identified with Euphorbia neriifolia It has the synonym Tithymalus edulis (Lour.) H. Karst. (etc.).

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

· Plantae Veronenses (1754)
· Flora Indica (1832)
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· FBI (1887)
· Taxon (1981)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Sudu, for example side effects, diet and recipes, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, health benefits, 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.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Suḍu (ಸುಡು):—

1) [verb] to cause to undergo combustion or be consumed partly or wholly by fire; to burn.

2) [verb] to prepare (food) for eating by subjecting to heat, as by boiling, baking, frying, etc.; to cook.

3) [verb] to subject to heat or to some treatment suggestive of a heating process.

4) [verb] to be heated greatly; to become very hot.

5) [verb] to be consumed by fire.

6) [verb] to draw the smoke of tobacco, etc. into the mouth, and often lungs, and blow it out again.

7) [verb] to shoot with a gun, rifle, etc.

8) [verb] to completely destroy, eradicate.

9) [verb] to become completely destroyed.

10) [verb] to become miserable; to be in a very unfortunate condition.

11) [verb] ಮೈ ಸುಡುತ್ತಿರು [mai suduttiru] mai suḍuttiru (the body) to have a high temperature, from fever; ಸುಟ್ಟು ಭಸ್ಮವಾಗು [suttu bhasmavagu] suṭṭu bhasmavāgu to be burned completely; to be reduced to ashes; ಸುಟ್ಟು ಸುಣ್ಣವಾಗು [suttu sunnavagu] suṭṭu suṇṇavāgu to be exhausted completely; ಬಿಟ್ಟ ಮನೆಗೆ ಸುಟ್ಟ ಒಕ್ಕಲು [bitta manege sutta okkalu] biṭṭa manege suṭṭa okkalu a wretched person and wretched state breed each other.

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Sūḍu (ಸೂಡು):—

1) [verb] to put (a flower, string of flowers, etc.) on one’s head, braided hair, etc.

2) [verb] to put (a flower, string of flowers, etc.) on another’s head, braided hair, etc.

3) [verb] to keep, place (something) on, above, in, etc.

4) [verb] to have, receive, get.

5) [verb] to carry a weight, burden, bundle, etc. on one’s head, back, shoulder, etc.

6) [verb] to make into a bundle.

7) [verb] to open and hold an umbrella (against rain or the sun).

8) [verb] (the sun, moon or a star, etc.) to appear in the horizon.

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Sūḍu (ಸೂಡು):—

1) [noun] a number of things tied, wrapped or otherwise held together; a bundle.

2) [noun] a large number of persons or things, esp. when gathered together or considered as a unit; a multitude.

3) [noun] a bundle of hair (knotted together).

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Sūḍu (ಸೂಡು):—

1) [noun] = ಸೂಡಿ [sudi]1 - 1.

2) [noun] a burning or being burned.

3) [noun] strongly burning fire; blaze.

4) [noun] much hotness; great warmth; heat.

5) [noun] a pile of wood on which a dead body is burned; a pyre.

6) [noun] a branding on the forehead, head with a hot piece of bangle to cure convulsion, paroxysm.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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