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 Latin nameSesamum indicum L.
 FamilyPedaliaceae
 Identified with (Skt)tila
 Identified with (Hin)til
 Identified with (Tam)eḷḷu, eḷḷucceṭi
 Identified with (Mal)eḷḷu
 Identified with (Eng)Sesame, Gingelly
 Botanical infoA pubescent annual plant up to 90 cm high, cultivated all over India in the plains up to 1200 m, leaves large, thin, sparsely hairy, flowers white, pink or purplish with yellow marks in racemes in the leaf axils, fruits quadrangular, oblong, compressed capsules, seeds black, brown or white
 Search occurrencetila, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
 See plant's imageSesamum indicum L. in Google image search
 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 448)
tila, m. Sesamum indicum (its blossom is compared to the nose, Gīt. x, 14 Siṃhās.; cf. -puSpa), sesamum seed (much used in cookery; supposed to have originated from Vishṇu's sweat-drops, Hcat. i, 6, 137 & 142), AV. (-la, xviii, 4, 32), VS., ŚBr. &c.; a mole, Kālid.; a small particle, MBh. &c.; the right lung, ŚārṅgS. v, 42; pl. N. of a ch. of PSarv. (cf. kRSNa-, carma-, SaNDha-).

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 545)
eḷḷu: 01 1. To ignore, disregard; 2. To ridicule, deride, laugh at; 3. To equal
02 Sesame


 
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