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 Latin nameCyperus rotundus L.
 FamilyCyperaceae
 Identified with (Skt)mustā, mustakā
 Identified with (Hin)mothā, nāgarmothā
 Identified with (Tam)kōṟai
 Identified with (Mal)muttaṅṅa
 Identified with (Eng)Nut grass
 Botanical infoA perennial glabrous herb with elongate slender stolons bearing hard black fragrant tubers and triquetrous aerial stems, growing all over India up to 1800 m, leaves narrowly linear, flat, spikelets in compound expanded umbels, glumes imbricate, nut trigonus, obovoid, greyish black
 Search occurrencemustā, mustakā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageCyperus rotundus L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 824)
musta, mn. and(ā), f. a species of grass, Cyperue Rotundus, Kāv., Var., Suśr. (n. prob. the root of Cyperue Rotundus).

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 824)
mustaka, m. n. and (ā), f. = musta, Cyperus Rotundus, Var., Suśr., Bhpr.; m. a partic. vegetable poison, L.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1193)
kōrai: Sedges and bulrushes, cyperus


 
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