Botanical info | An evergreen woody glabrous showy shrub, growing throughout India, leaves ovate, bright green, flowers showy, solitary and axillary, pedicels jointed with pistil and stamens projecting from the centre, anthers reniform or kidney shaped |
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries | Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 412) japā, f. (= javā) the China rose, VarBṛS. xxviii, 14, BrahmaP. ii, 1, 7. Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 235) oṇḍra, as, m., N. of a country (the modern Orissa; see Lassen, IA. i, 224, note 2); (ās), m. pl. the inhabitants of that country, Hariv.; mn. x, 44; R. &c.; the China rose, L. - deśa, m., N. of the country Orissa. -pushpa, n. the flower of the China rose, L. Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 1593) cemparutti: 1. A kind of superior cotton used in making sacred thread; 2. Brazil cotton, s. tr., Gossypium arboreum
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