Biology (plants and animals)

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

Unnayam 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 Anthaenantia gigantea (Kuntze) K. Schum. (among others).

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

· Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India (1966)
· Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae Orientalis Ind. Orient. (1821)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1900)
· Flora of Tropical East Africa. (1982)
· Grasses of Burma (1960)
· Nova Genera et Species Plantarum seu Prodromus (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.

Languages of India and abroad

Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Uṉṉayam (உன்னயம்) noun cf. உன்னி³. [unni³.] A treatise on hippology; அசுவசாத்திரநூல்களு ளொன்று. உன்னயமுதலாம் புரவிநூல் [asuvasathiranulkalu lonru. unnayamuthalam puravinul] (மகாபாரதம் நாடுக. [magaparatham naduga.] 21).

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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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