Biology (plants and animals)

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

Tokal in India is the name of a plant defined with Panicum maximum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym also an account of Sumatra, in a series of letters. London 1814. See [Benjamin Heyne], An Examination of so much of the Tracts, historical and statistical, on India, etc. by B.H. … as relates to the accounts of Sumatra, with various notices on the subjects of Cannibalism, Slavery, etc. By an inhabitant of Fort Marlborough. London 1818 (among others).

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

· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1994)
· Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1930)
· Eclogae Graminum Rariorum (1814)
· Beskrivelse af Guineeiske planter (1827)
· Queensland Agricultural Journal (1938)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus (1788)

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

Languages of India and abroad

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Tōkal (தோகல்) noun Guinea grass. See சோனைப்புல். (வைத்திய மலையகராதி) [sonaippul. (vaithiya malaiyagarathi)]

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Tokala, Tokalayam, Tokalayamaram, Tokali.

Full-text: Dogal.

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