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 Latin nameCoccinia grandis Voiqt
 FamilyCucurbitaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Cephalandra indica Naudin
 Identified with (Skt)bimbī, bimbikā
 Identified with (Hin)bimb, kānturi
 Identified with (Tam)kōvai
 Identified with (Mal)kōva, kōval
 Identified with (Eng)Ivy gourd
 Botanical infoA perennial tendril climber, growing throughout India, leaves deltoid or subrotund, green above and pale beneath, flowers white and large, fruits ovoid or oblong berries with white streaks, bright scarlet red, ovoid seeds
 Search occurrencebimbī, bimbikā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageCoccinia grandis Voiqt in Google image search
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 731)
bimba, m. n. (also written vimba, or vimva, of doubtful origin, but cf. Uṇ. iv, 95, Sch.; ifc., f. ā) the disk of the sun or moon, Kāv., Pur. &c.; any disk, sphere, orb (often applied to the rounded parts of the body), Kālid., Pañcat.; a mirror ŚvetUp., Kum.; an image, shadow, reflected or represented form, picture, type, R., BhP., Rājat.; (in rhet.) the object compared (as opp. to prati-bimba, 'the counterpart' to which it is compared) Sāh. Pratāp.; m. a lizard, chameleon Gaut.; N. of a man, Rājat.; (ā), f. Momordica Monadelpha (a plant bearing a bright-red gourd), L.; N. of 2 metres, Col.; N. of the wife of Bālāditya (king of Kaśmīra), Rājat.; (ī), f. Momordica Monadelpha, Sulr. (cf. g. gaurādi); N. of the mother of king Bimbi-sāra (below), Buddh.; n. the fruit of the Momordica Monadelpha (to which the lips of women are often compared), MBh., Kāv. &c.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1199)
kōvai: 1. Stringing, filing, arranging; 2. Series, succession, row; 3. String of ornamental beads for neck or waist; 4. Arrangement, scheme; 5. A kind of love-poem; 6. An ancient gold coin; 7. Common creeper of the hedges, coccinia indica ; 8. A climbing shrub, Bryonia epigoea


 
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