Biology (plants and animals)

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

1) Nungu in India is the name of a plant defined with Borassus flabellifer in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Pholidocarpus tunicatus H. Wendl. (among others).

2) Nungu in Tanzania is also identified with Zanthoxylum chalybeum It has the synonym Fagara mpwapwensis Engl. (etc.).

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

· Fl. Cochinch. (1790)
· Botanica Acta (1997)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2003)
· Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas (1895)
· Webbia (1914)
· Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzenge schichte und Pflanzengeographie (1896)

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

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Nuṃgu (ನುಂಗು):—

1) [verb] to take into the stomach food, drink or other substances, etc. by drawing through the throat and oesophagus with a series of voluntary muscular action.

2) [verb] to conceal, hide something within oneself.

3) [verb] to eat, consume, etc. as food.

4) [verb] to destroy, wipe out completely.

5) [verb] to kill; to end another’s life.

6) [verb] to cover with or as with a veil.

7) [verb] to restrain, keep in check or suppress deliberate (as one’s feelings, anger, etc.).

8) [verb] to swindle, misappropriate another’s money, property, illegally, under false pretences, etc.

9) [verb] ನುಂಗಲಾರದ ಗುಳಿಗೆ [numgalarada gulige] nuṃgalārada guḷige (fig.) an unacceptable, unfavourable solution to a problem imposed on; ನುಂಗಲಾರದ ತುತ್ತು [numgalarada tuttu] nuṃgalārada tuttu that which is unmanageable (esp. something that is imposed on). 2. that which is very hard to understood; ನುಂಗಿಕೊಳ್ಳು [numgikollu] nuṃgikoḷḷu to swallow (as a food item, drink, etc.). 2. to refrain from expressing (one’s anger, reaction against humiliation, etc.); to hold back; to suppress; ನುಂಗಿ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿ [numgi niru kudi] nungi nīru kuḍi = ನುಂಗಿಹಾಕು [numgihaku]; 2. to spoil or destroy completely; ನುಂಗಿ ನೊಣೆ [numgi none] nungi noṇe = ನುಂಗಿ ನೀರು ಕುಡಿ [numgi niru kudi] – 2; ನುಂಗಿಹಾಕು [numgihaku] nungi hāku to swindle, misappropriate another’s or other’s money, property, etc. illegally or under false pretences.

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Nuṃgu (ನುಂಗು):—[noun] a piece of cloth used to cover or conceal something; a veil.

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Nuṃgu (ನುಂಗು):—[noun] the palm tree Borassum flbellifer (= B. flabelliformis) of Arecaceae family.

context information

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: Numguha, Numgumgannu.

Ends with: Hanumgu, Jinumgu, Junumgu, Kunumgu, Minumgu, Mudi, Tatinumgu, Tenumgu, Unumgu.

Full-text: Kiga-nungu, Numku, Nungu-tsende, Panainunku, Nonku, Pananculai, Nunkukkuvalai, Nukkankulai, Nunkukkacar, Nukkam, Beralu, Gantu, Ugulu, Ane.

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