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Citrus medica L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Citrus medica L.
Family	Rutaceae
Identified with (Skt)	mātuliṅga, mātuliṅgī, mātuluṅga
Identified with (Hin)	bijaurā, galgal
Identified with (Tam)	kaṭāranārattai
Identified with (Mal)	gaṇapatinārakam
Identified with (Eng)	Citron
Botanical info	An evergreen armed shrub with straggling thorny branches, growing throughout India in forests along streams up to 1200 m, oblong or elliptic leaves, white flowers tinged with pink, scented, fruits large berries oblong or globose, fleshy, rind thick, rough, yellow when ripe
Search occurrence	mātuliṅga, mātuliṅgī, mātuluṅga , in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 807) mātulaṅga, m. a citron tree, Suśr.; n. a citron ib. (also -lAṅga, Hcat.) Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 807) mātuliṅga, m. (Hariv.), mātuliṅgī, f. (HPariś.) = prec. n.; n. = prec. n., Hariv., Hcat. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 807) mātuluṅga, m. and n. = prec., m. and n., Suśr.; (ā or ī), f. another species of citron tree, sweet lime ib. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 666) kaṭāranārattai: Seville orange, m. tr., Citrus vulgaris

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