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Plant name	lakuca
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Artocarpus hirsutus Lam. - please click to view full record
Sanskrit name	lakuca
Tamil name	kāṭṭuppalā
Malayalam name	ayani, ayanipḷāvu, āññali, āññili
English name	Wild jack
Search occurrence	lakuca, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 891) lakuca (MBh., Suśr. &c.), m. a kind of bread-fruit tree, Artocarpus Lacucha (a tree containing a large quantity of sticky milky juice); n. the fruit of this tree.

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