Utar, Uṭar, Utār: 4 definitions

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Utar means something in Hindi, biology, Tamil. 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.

Ambiguity: Although Utar has separate glossary definitions below, it also represents an alternative spelling of the word Utara.

Biology (plants and animals)

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

Utar in India is the name of a plant defined with Indigofera cassioides in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Anila pulchella (Roxb.) Kuntze (among others).

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

· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1891)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Notulae Systematicae (Paris) (1915)
· Indian J. Forest. (1984)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (DC.) (1825)
· Flora Indica (1832)

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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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Languages of India and abroad

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Utar in Hindi refers in English to:—(nm) descent; depreciation; fall; ebb-tide; down-gradient, falling gradient..—utar (उतार) is alternatively transliterated as Utāra.

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Tamil dictionary

Source: DDSA: University of Madras: Tamil Lexicon

Uṭar (உடர்) noun < உடல். [udal.] Body; உடம்பு. உடரெலா முயிரிலா [udambu. udarela muyirila] (கம்பராமாயணம் குக. [kambaramayanam kuga.] 70).

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Utār (உதார்) noun Support; ஆதாரம். உதார் சுவர். [atharam. uthar suvar.] Colloq.

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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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