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Nighantu (Synonyms and Characteristics of Drugs and technical terms)

Source: WorldCat: Rāj nighaṇṭu

Teraṇa (तेरण) is another name for Tairiṇī, an unidentified medicinal plant, according to verse 4.127 of the 13th-century Raj Nighantu or Rājanighaṇṭu. The fourth chapter (śatāhvādi-varga) of this book enumerates eighty varieties of small plants (pṛthu-kṣupa). Note Tairiṇī is an unidentified plant  introduced by the Rājanighaṇṭu. Together with the names Teraṇa and Tairiṇī, there are a total of four Sanskrit synonyms identified for this plant.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Wisdom Library: Local Names of Plants and Drugs

Terana [ತೇರಣ] in the Kannada language is the name of a plant identified with Barleria buxifolia Barleria buxifolia L. from the Acanthaceae (Acanthus) family. For the possible medicinal usage of terana, you can check this page for potential sources and references, although be aware that any some or none of the side-effects may not be mentioned here, wether they be harmful or beneficial to health.

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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.

Languages of India and abroad

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Teraṇa (तेरण):—m. balsamine, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Terana in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Ṭeranā (टेरना):—(v) to call, to summon.

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Tēraṇa (ತೇರಣ):—

1) [noun] the plant Barleria buxifolia (Var. roseaflora) of Acanthaceae family; prickly purple nail dye.

2) [noun] a kind of tree.

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Tēraṇa (ತೇರಣ):—[noun] any of an order (Isoptera) of pale-coloured social insects having a soft body and living in colonies composed of winged forms that mate and wingless workers and soldiers that are usu. sterile or immature, and which are very destructive to wooden structures and are found in the temperate zones and esp. in the tropics; a white ant; a termite.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Teranai, Teranata.

Ends with: Aterana, Giduderana, Suterana.

Full-text: Tera, Terane, Tairini, Vicia sativa.

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