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Hordeum vulgare L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Hordeum vulgare L.
Family	Poaceae
Identified with (Skt)	yava
Identified with (Hin)	jāv, jau
Identified with (Tam)	pārli arici
Identified with (Mal)	yavam, bāṛli
Identified with (Eng)	Barley
Botanical info	A tufted annual herb up to 100 cm high, growing all over India, leaves few, flaccid, linear, upper ones close to the spike, fruit an elliptic short pinted grooved caryopsis
Search occurrence	yava, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
See plant's image	Hordeum vulgare L. in Google image search
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 847) yava, m. barley (in the earliest times, prob. any grain or corn yielding flour or meal; pl. barley-corns), RV. &c. &c.; a barley-corn (either as a measure of length = 1/6 or 1/8 of an Aṅgula, VarBṛS.; or as a weight= 6 or 12 mustard seeds= 1/2 Guñjā, Mn., Yājñ.); any grain of seed or seed corn, Bhpr.; (in palmistry) a figure or mark on the hand resembling a barley-corn (supposed to indicate good fortune), VarBṛS.; N. of a partic. astron. Yoga (when the favourable planets are situated in the 4th and 10th mansions and the unfavourable ones in the 1st and 7th) ib.; speed, velocity, W. (prob. w.r. for java); a double convex lens ib. [Cf. Zd. yava; Gk. ......; Lith. &256791[847,2] javai.]

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