Biology (plants and animals)

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

Vatapotha in India is the name of a plant defined with Butea monosperma in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Rudolphia frondosa (Willd.) Poir. (among others).

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

· A Numerical List of Dried Specimens (5569)
· Encycl. (Lamarck) (1804)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1990)
· Species Plantarum. (1802)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1786)
· Journal of Tree Sciences (1983)

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

Vātapotha (वातपोथ).—the tree called पलाश (palāśa).

Derivable forms: vātapothaḥ (वातपोथः).

Vātapotha is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms vāta and potha (पोथ). See also (synonyms): vātapothaka.

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

Vātapotha (वातपोथ).—m.

(-thaḥ) The Palasha tree, (Butea frondosa.) E. vāta rheumatism, puth to hurt, aff. aṇ; also vātapothaka .

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

Vātapotha (वातपोथ):—[=vāta-potha] [from vāta > vā] m. the tree Butea Frondosa, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

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

Vātapotha (वातपोथ):—[vāta-potha] (thaḥ) 1. m. The Palās tree.

[Sanskrit to German]

Vatapotha 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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Vātapōtha (ವಾತಪೋಥ):—[noun] the tree Butea frondosa of Papilionaceae family; flame of the forest.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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