Biology (plants and animals)

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

Vanavrihi in India is the name of a plant defined with Hygroryza aristata in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Gerhard Rudolph, in D.S.B. 11: 381–383. 1981, Stafleu and Cowan, Taxonomic Literature. 4: 735–738. Utrecht 1983, Mariella Azzarello Di Misa, ed., Il Fondo Antico della Biblioteca dell’Orto Botanico di Palermo. 229. Regione Siciliana, Palermo 1988, R. Zander, F. Encke, G. Buchheim & S. Seybold, Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. 14 Aufl . Stuttgart 1993. (among others).

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

· Grasses of Burma (1960)
· Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon (1900)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or a catalogue … (1814)
· Phil. J. Sci. (1912)
· Systema Vegetabilium, editio decima sexta (1825)
· Grasses of Ceylon (1956)

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

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Vanavrīhi (वनव्रीहि).—wild rice.

Derivable forms: vanavrīhiḥ (वनव्रीहिः).

Vanavrīhi is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vana and vrīhi (व्रीहि).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vanavrīhi (वनव्रीहि).—m.

(-hiḥ) Rice growing wild in pools or swamps, and considered by botanists, as the parent stock of all the varieties cultivated in India. E. vana wood or water, and vrīhi rice.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vanavrīhi (वनव्रीहि):—[=vana-vrīhi] [from vana > van] m. wild rice, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Vanavrīhi (वनव्रीहि):—[vana-vrīhi] (hiḥ) 2. m. Rice growing wild in pools or swamps.

[Sanskrit to German]

Vanavrihi in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Partial matches: Vana, Vrihi.

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