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Plant name	trapuṣa
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Cucumis sativus L. - please click to view full record
Sanskrit name	trapuṣa
Hindi name	khīrā
Tamil name	veḷḷarikkāy, pīppiṅkāy
Malayalam name	veḷḷari
English name	Cucumber, Common cucumber
Search occurrence	trapuṣa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 457) trapus, n. tin, TS. iv, 7, 5, 1. trapusa, n. id. L.; the fruit of °sī (also °puṣa, L.) Kauś. Suśr.; (ī), f. coloquintida (and other cucumbers, L.), vi, 47.

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