Biology (plants and animals)

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

Gavedu in India is the name of a plant defined with Coix lacryma-jobi in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Lithagrostis lachryma-jobi Moench (among others).

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

· Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (3656)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1990)
· Cytologia (1993)
· Grasses of Japan and its Neighboring Regions (1987)
· Current Science (1989)
· Phytochemistry (1989)

If you are looking for specific details regarding Gavedu, for example extract dosage, chemical composition, pregnancy safety, 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

Gaveḍu (गवेडु).—A kind of grass eaten by cattle; Kirātārjunīya 12.51.

-ḍuḥ A cloud.

Derivable forms: gaveḍuḥ (गवेडुः).

See also (synonyms): gavedhu, gavedhukā.

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

Gaveḍu (गवेडु).—m.

(-ḍuḥ) A cloud. f.

(-ḍuḥ) A kind of grain, (Coix barbata.) E. go a cow or the earth, eḍ to preserve, u affix, or with kan added gaveḍukā also gavedhu, &c.

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

1) Gaveḍu (गवेडु):—[from gavīdhu] a f. = vīdhu, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] m. a cloud, [Horace H. Wilson]

3) b etc., vedhuka See vīdhu.

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

Gaveḍu (गवेडु):—(ḍuḥ) 2. m. A cloud. f. A kind of grain (Coix barbata).

[Sanskrit to German]

Gavedu 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

Gavēḍu (ಗವೇಡು):—[noun] the grass Chionachne barbatya ( = Coix barbatum) of Poaceae family.

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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)

Starts with: Gaveduk, Gaveduka.

Ends with: Karakavetu, Napakavetu.

Full-text: Gadava, Gavedhu, Gavedhuke, Gavedhuka.

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