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

West indian locust tree in English is the name of a plant defined with Hymenaea courbaril in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Inga megacarpa M.E. Jones (among others).

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

· Prodromus Stirpium in Horto ad Chapel Allerton vigentium (1796)
· Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (1953)
· Archivos do Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro (1925)
· A Botanical Materia Medica (1812)
· Getreue Darstellung und Beschreibung der in der Arzneykunde Gebräuchlichen Gewächse (1830)
· Brenesia (1980)

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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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