| Latin name | Cocos nucifera L. | | Family | Arecaceae | | Identified with (Skt) | nārikela, nārikelavṛkṣa | | Identified with (Hin) | nāriyal, nāriyal kā peṛ | | Identified with (Tam) | tēṅkāy maram, teṉṉai maram, tēṅkāy | | Identified with (Mal) | teṅṅu, nāḷikēram | | Identified with (Eng) | Coconut tree, Coconut | | Botanical info | A palm up to 25 m high growing in south India along the coast, cylindrical annulated stem bearing a crown of large leaves 2 - 5 m long, inflorescence spandix with hard oblong longitudinally splitting spahte enclosing many yellow or orange male flowers and few female flowers, fruits obovoid, one oval seed with hard endocart and oily white endosperm and sweet milky fluid in the large cavity | | Search occurrence | nārikela, nārikelavṛkṣa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts | | See plant's image | Cocos nucifera L. in Google image search | Encyclopedias &
Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 537)
nārikera, m. the cocoa-nut tree, the cocoa-nut, Suśr. &c. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 537)
nārikela, m. id., MBh. &c. (L. also -li, or -lī, f.)
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