Chavokku: 1 definition
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Biology (plants and animals)
Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)Chavokku in India is the name of a plant defined with Casuarina equisetifolia in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Casuarina equisetifolia Blanco (among others).
Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):
· Casuarinaceae.
· Flora de Filipinas (1837)
· Journ. Arn. Arb. (1950)
· Smithsonian Contributions to Botany (1975)
· Amoenitates academicae (1759)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
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