Botanical info | A small shrub, 60 cm - 2,5 m high, growing throughout India, leaves alternate, lobes broad, ovate, rotund, leathery, flowers yellow with purple centre, fruits rounded beaked capsules, seeds with two coats of hairs, white grey or reddish brown |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 258) karpāsa as, ī, am mf. n. the cotton tree, cotton, Gossypium Herbaceum, Suśr.; [cf. Gk. ......; &80412[258,1] Lat. carbasus.] Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 276) kārpāsa, mf(ī, L.)n. (fr. karpAsa; g. bilvādi), made of cotton, cottony ĀśvŚr. Lāṭy., Mn. &c. [276,1]; (as, am), m. n. cotton, cotton cloth, &c., Mn., MBh. &c.; paper, W.; (ī), f. the cotton plant, Suśr. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 908) kāṟpācam: Indian cotton plant Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2417) pañcu: 01 1. Cotton; 2. Cloth; 3. Wick; 4. Indian cotton-plant; 5. Down of pūḷai ; 6. A technical term, used, in dice-play 02 To exhibit one's poverty
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