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

Water melon in English is the name of a plant defined with Citrullus lanatus in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cucumis vulgaris (Schrad. ex Eckl. & Zeyh.) E.H.L. Krause (among others).

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

· Catalogus Seminum et Sporarum in Horto Botanico Universitatis Imperialis Tokyoensis (1915)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae (1826)
· Prodromus Plantarum Capensium (1794)
· Prodr. Flora Capensis, being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal (1800)
· Uses of plants by the Indians (1991)

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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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