Tzu: 1 definition
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Tzu 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)Tzu in China is the name of a plant defined with Tribulus terrestris in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Tribulus lanuginosus L. (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Folia Geobotanica et Phytotaxonomica (1995)
· Kew Bulletin (1954)
· Australian Journal of Botany (1996)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1898)
· Taiwania (1994)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
If you are looking for specific details regarding Tzu, for example diet and recipes, health benefits, extract dosage, pregnancy safety, chemical composition, side effects, have a look at these references.
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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Starts with: Tzu chin niu, Tzu hu, Tzu hua ti ting, Tzu ku, Tzu mo li, Tzu mo lo, Tzu ping, Tzu po, Tzu shen, Tzu su, Tzu tan, Tzu tsao, Tzujoyo, Tzumenumli.
Ends with (+13): Ai yu tzu, Chia ching tzu, Chieh tu tzu, Chih tzu, Chin yin tzu, Ginger of the man-tzu, Ho tzu, Hsiang ssu tzu, Hu tzu, Huang yao tzu, Hung yao tzu, Kao liang chiang tzu, Ku tzu, Mu huan tzu, Mu pieh tzu, Mu yao tzu, Muzutzu, Niu pang tzu, Pien fu tzu, Shan tzu.
Full-text (+34): Tzu po, Tzu tsao, Shan tzu, Tzu mo lo, Wu leng tzu, Mu yao tzu, Hung yao tzu, Ta li tzu, Mai tzu mu, Tien chieh tzu, Tzu ping, Liang tzu mu, Mu huan tzu, Huang yao tzu, Ai yu tzu, Tzu mo li, Wu huan tzu, Wu han tzu, Ku tzu, Chin yin tzu.
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Search found 13 books and stories containing Tzu; (plurals include: Tzus). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Buddha-nature (as Depicted in the Lankavatara-sutra) (by Nguyen Dac Sy)
Buddhist records of the Western world (Xuanzang) (by Samuel Beal)
Chapter 1 - Country of ’O-ki-ni (Akni or Agni) < [Book I - Thirty-Four Countries]
Flower Adornment Sutra Preface
True Happiness < [July 1949]
True Happiness < [April – June and July – September, 1996]
Indians Have Little Sense of History < [April – June, 2007]
Blue Annals (deb-ther sngon-po) (by George N. Roerich)
Chapter 10 - Imperial lines of Tibet, China, Hor, etc. < [Book 1 - The beginning of the story of the Doctrine]
Turning towards emptiness (by Ajahn Sumedho)
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