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 Latin nameOcimum tenuiflorum L.
 FamilyLamiaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Ocimum sanctum L.
 Identified with (Skt)tulasī, surasā
 Identified with (Hin)tulsī, kālatulsī
 Identified with (Tam)kāruttuḷaci, tuḷaci
 Identified with (Mal)kṛṣṇattuḷaci, tuḷaci, tṛttāvu, kaṛuttatṛttāvu
 Identified with (Eng)Holy basil, Sacred basil
 Botanical infoA softly pubescent undershrub, 30 - 60 cm high, growing throughout India, leaves simple, opposite, elliptic, oblong, obtuse or acute, flowers purplish in elongate recemes in close whorls, stamens exserted, fruits nutlets
 Search occurrencetulasī, surasā, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageOcimum tenuiflorum L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1232)
surasa, mf(ā)n. rich in water, Bhām.; well-flavoured, juicy, sapid, savoury, R., VarBṛS., Vās.; sweet, lovely, charming, Kathās., Bhām.; elegant (as composition), W.; m. Vitex Negundo, L.; Andropogon Schonanthus, L.; the resin of Gossampinus Rumphii, L.; N. of a serpentdemon, MBh.; of a mountain, MārkP.; m. n. and (ā), f. holy basil, Hcar., L.; (ā), f. N. of various plants (Anethum Panmori; Vitex Negundo; a kind of jasmine; = rAsnā &c.), L.; a kind of metre, Col.; (in music) a partic. Rāgiṇī, Saṃgīt.; N. of Durgā, L.; of a daughter of Daksha (wife of Kaśyapa and mother of the Nāgas), MBh., R. &c.; of an Apsaras, MBh., Hariv.; of a daughter of Raudrāśva, Hariv.; of a river, Pur.; (ī), f. a partic. plant, Vāgbh.; n. (only, L.) resin; fragrant grass; gum-myrrh; Cassia bark; -saMgraha, m. N. of wk.; -sāgraja n. (prob.) = next, Suśr.; -sāgraNī, m. white basil, L.; -sācchada, m. (prob.) the leaf of the white basil, Suśr.; -sāSTa n. a collective N. of 8 plants (viz. Nirguṇṭī, Tulasī, Brāhmī &c.), L.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 451)
tulasī, f. holy basil (small shrub venerated by Vaishṇavas; commonly Tulsī), BhP., VāyuP. and, PadmaP. (produced from the ocean when churned), BrahmaP. (produced from the hair of the goddess Tulasī, ii, 19.)

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 2001)
tuḷaci: 1. Sacred basil, m. sh., Ocimum sanctum; 2. Rough basil


 
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