Biology (plants and animals)

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

Sweet wood in English is the name of a plant defined with Croton eluteria in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Clutia decandra Crantz (among others).

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

· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1866)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (1890)
· Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany (1860)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus (1788)
· London medical journal (1787)

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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: Wood.

Starts with: Sweet wood bark, Sweet woodreed, Sweet woodruff.

Full-text: Sweet wood bark.

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Search found 2 books and stories containing Sweet wood; (plurals include: Sweet woods). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:

The Jataka tales [English], Volume 1-6 (by Robert Chalmers)

Jataka 504: Bhallāṭiya-jātaka < [Volume 4]

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Myths and Legends of Babylonia and Assyria (by Lewis Spence)

Chapter X - The Magic and Demonology of Babylonia and Assyria

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