Tampalam, Tāmpāḷam: 2 definitions

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Biology (plants and animals)

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

Tampalam in Tamil is the name of a plant defined with Ziziphus mauritiana in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Rhamnus jujuba Linnaeus (among others).

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

· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (Lamarck) (1789)
· FBI (1875)
· Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France (1909)
· Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden (2192)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum (1788)

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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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Tamil dictionary

[«previous next»] — Tampalam in Tamil glossary
Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Tampalam (தம்பலம்) noun < tāmbūla.

1. Betel with areca-nut; வெற்றிலைபாக்கு. தையா றம் பலந் தின்றியோ [verrilaipakku. thaiya ram palan thinriyo] (கலித்தொகை [kalithogai] 65).

2. [Telugu: tamma.] Red spittle caused by chewing betel; refuse of chewed betel; தாம்பூல எச்சில். தில்லைநல்லார் பொதுத்தம்பலங் கொணர்ந்தோ [thambula echil. thillainallar pothuthambalang konarntho] (திருக்கோவையார் [thirukkovaiyar] 396).

3. See தம்பலப்பூச்சி. [thambalappuchi.]

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Tāmpāḷam (தாம்பாளம்) noun [Telugu: tāmbāḷamu, K. tāmbāḷa.] Salver of a large size; ஒருவகைத் தட்டு. தளிகை காளாஞ்சி தாம்பாளம் [oruvagaith thattu. thaligai kalanchi thambalam] (பிரபோதசந்திரோதயம் [pirapothasandirothayam] 11, 31).

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Tamil is an ancient language of India from the Dravidian family spoken by roughly 250 million people mainly in southern India and Sri Lanka.

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