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 Plant namekarpāsa
 LanguageSanskrit
 Latin nameGossypium herbaceum L. - please click to view full record
 Sanskrit namekarpāsa, kārpāsī
 Hindi namekapās, rūyī
 Tamil namekarpacam, pañcu
 Malayalam nameparutti, nūlpparutti, kurupparutti, paññipparutti
 English nameCommon cotton, Indian cotton
 Search occurrencekarpāsa, kārpāsī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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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.]


 
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