Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Gandholi in India is the name of a plant defined with Hedychium spicatum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Gandasulium sieboldii (Wall.) Kuntze (among others).

2) Gandholi is also identified with Paederia foetida It has the synonym Gentiana scandens Lour. (etc.).

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

· Acta Phytotax. Geobot. (1939)
· Bulletin of the Tokyo Science Museum (1950)
· Publications of the Field Columbian Museum, Botanical Series (1931)
· Sci. Rep. Kanazawa Univ., Biol. (1955)
· Cycl. (1811)
· Species Plantarum (1753)

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

Gandholī (गन्धोली).—

1) A wasp; गन्धोलिपालीगृहसिक्थकुम्भात् (gandholipālīgṛhasikthakumbhāt) Rām. Ch.6.89.

2) Dried ginger.

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

Gandholi (गन्धोलि).—f. (-liḥ or -lī) A kind of cucumber, (C. reclinata, Rox.) (-lī) 1. A wasp. 2. A fragrant grass, (Cyperus rotundus.) E. gandha to smell or injure E. olaca affix, in or ṅīṣ fem. aff.

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

1) Gandholi (गन्धोलि):—[from gandha] f. = dha-palāśī, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) Gandholī (गन्धोली):—[from gandha] f. idem, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

3) [v.s. ...] Paederia foetida, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

4) [v.s. ...] Cyperus rotundus, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

5) [v.s. ...] dried ginger, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

6) [v.s. ...] (= dhālī) a wasp, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

7) [v.s. ...] Name of Indrāṇī, [Demetrius Galanos’s Lexiko: sanskritikes, anglikes, hellenikes]

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

Gandholi (गन्धोलि):—[(liḥ-lī)] 2. 3. f. A cucumber; a wasp; a fragrant grass.

[Sanskrit to German]

Gandholi 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

Gaṃdhōli (ಗಂಧೋಲಿ):—[noun] any of several large social wasps of the Vespidae family, of striking yellow and black colour, having a vicious sting that can be used repeatedly; a hornet wasp.

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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.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Full-text: Bhadrakali, Gandhali, Shunthi, Shali.

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