Biology (plants and animals)

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

Vadaja in India is the name of a plant defined with Acorus calamus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Acorus calamus var. americanus Raf. (among others).

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

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· Taxon (1980)
· Izvestiia Akademii Nauk Belorusskoi SSR: Seriia Biologicheskikh Nauk (1985)
· New Flora and Botany of North America (Rafinesque) (1836)
· Phytotherapy Research
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (1990)

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

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

vaḍajā (वडजा).—m (A proper name.) Applied to a person much distorted and deformed.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Vadajakhina.

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