Biology (plants and animals)

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

Dantabija in India is the name of a plant defined with Lagenaria siceraria in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Cucurbita idolatrica Willd. (among others).

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

· Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden (1968)
· Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. (1937)
· Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d’Histoire Naturelle de Genève (1825)
· Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club (1896)
· Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique (1786)
· Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1892)

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

Dantabīja (दन्तबीज).—Pomegranate.

Derivable forms: dantabījaḥ (दन्तबीजः).

Dantabīja is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms danta and bīja (बीज). See also (synonyms): dantabījaka.

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

1) Dantabīja (दन्तबीज):—[=danta-bīja] [from danta] m. pomegranate, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Dantabījā (दन्तबीजा):—[=danta-bījā] [from danta-bīja > danta] f. idem, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] Name of a gourd, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Dantabija 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: Bija, Danta.

Starts with: Dantabijaka.

Full-text: Dantabijaka.

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