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 Latin nameEuphorbia neriifolia L.
 FamilyEuphorbiaceae
 Identified with (Skt)snuhī, sehuṇḍa
 Identified with (Hin)sehuṇḍ, thuhar
 Identified with (Tam)ilaikkaḷḷi
 Identified with (Mal)ilakkaḷḷi, kaḷḷi
 Identified with (Eng)Common milk hedge
 Botanical infoA large fleshy, glabrous shrub or small tree, growing throughout India, leaves fleshy, deciduous, obovate, involucres in threes on a short fleshy peduncle, fruits tricoccus, seeds greenish brown
 Search occurrencesnuhī, sehuṇḍa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1247)
sehuṇḍa, m. Euphorbia Ligularia (cf. sIh-), KāśīKh.; (ā), f. id., Bhpr.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1268)
snuh 2, mfn. (nom. snuk or snuT) vomiting, one who vomits MW.; f. a kind of spurge, Euphorbia Antiquorum (its milky juice is used as an emetic &c.; it has 17 synonyms cf. sIhuNDa &c.), Car., Suśr.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1268)
snuhā and snuhi, f. id., Hcar., snuhī, f. id., Suśr.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 347)
ilaikkaḷḷi: 1. Five-tubercled spurge, s. tr., Euphorbia neriifolia; 2. Spiral five-tubercled spurge, s. tr., Euphorbia nivulia


 
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