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 Latin nameCalamus rotang L.
 FamilyArecaceae
 Identified with (Skt)vetra
 Identified with (Hin)bet, beṃt
 Identified with (Tam)pirampu
 Identified with (Mal)cūral
 Identified with (Eng)Common rattan, Rattan
 Botanical infoA scandent slender shrub growing in central and south India in dry tracts up to 450 m, with cylindrical uniformly thick yellowish white stems, short flat spines on leaf sheaths, fruits seated on the minute perianth, subglobose, in vertical series, pale yellow
 Search occurrencevetra, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageCalamus rotang L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1015)
vetra, m. n. (accord. to Uṇ. iv, 166, fr. 1. vī; prob. connected with 1. ve cf. veNu) a kind of large reed (used for making sticks, prob. Calamus Rotang or Fasciculatus), Kauś., MBh. &c.; n. a cane, staff, VarBṛS., BhP., MaitrUp., Sch.; the rod or mace of an officer, staff of a door-keeper (see comp.); the tube of a flute, Saṃgīt.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2682)
pirampu: 1. Rattan, m. cl., Calamus rotang; 2. Switchy rattan, l. sh.,Calamus vimanalis; 3. Bamboo; 4. Sea; 5. Ghee; 6. Raised platform with steps, giving access to a temple-car; 7. Ridge in the field


 
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