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 Latin nameZiziphus mauritiana Lam.
 FamilyRhamnaceae
 Identified with (Lat)Ziziphus jujuba Lam.
 Identified with (Skt)kola, badara, kolī
 Identified with (Hin)ber, berī
 Identified with (Tam)ilantai, ilantappaḻam
 Identified with (Mal)ilanta, lantappaḻam, ilantappaḻam, peruntuṭali
 Identified with (Eng)Indian jujube, Common jujube, Chinese date
 Botanical infoA thorny deciduous tree growing throughout India in dry deciduous forests up to 1500 m, leaves oblong-elliptic, ovate or suborbicular, flowers greenish yellow in axillary dense fascicles or sessile or short peduncled cymes, fruits oblong, globose or ovoid drupes, yellow to red
 Search occurrencekola, badara, kolī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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 Encyclopedias &
 Dictionaries

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 719)
badara, m. the jujube tree, Zizyphus Jujuba, L.; another tree (= deva-sarSapa), L.; the kernel of the fruit of the cotton plant, L.; dried ginger, L.; N. of a man g. naDādi; (ā), f. the cotton shrub, L.; a species of Dioscorea, L.; Mimosa Octandra, L.; Clitoria Ternatea, L.; (ī), f. see below; (bad-) n. the edible fruit of the jujube (also used as a weight), VS. &c. &c.; the berry or fruit of the cotton shrub, L.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 313)
kola, m. (jvalādi), a hog (cf. kroDa), Yājñ. iii, 273 Vop.; a raft Divyāv. iii; the breast, haunch, hip or flank, lap (cf. kroDa), L.; an embrace, embracing, L.; a kind of weapon, L.; N. of a plant (= citra, citraka), L.; the planet Saturn, L.; N. of Śiva, Gal.; N. of a son of Ākrīḍa, Hariv. 1836; N. of a degraded warrior-tribe (outcast, one degraded by Sagara from the military order), Hariv. (v.l. koli-sarpa q.v.); a man of a mixed caste, BrahmaP.; a barbarian, Kol, of a tribe inhabiting the hills in central India, W.; (as, am), m. n. the weight of one Tola (= 2 TaGka [or śANa Aṣṭāṅg.] = 1/2 karSa, ŚārṅgS.); (ā), f. Piper longum, L.; Piper Chaba, L.; (ā, ī), f. the jujube tree, L.; (am) n. the fruit of the jujube (cf. kuvala) ChUp. vii, 3, 1, Lalit., Suśr.; black pepper, L.; the grain of Piper Chaba, L.

Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 313)
koli, is mf. the jujube tree (Zizyphus Jujuba), L.

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 341)
ilantai: 01 Jujube-tree, m. tr., Zizyphus jujuba
02 Water tank

Tamil Lexicon, University of Madras (p. 341)
ilantai: 01 Jujube-tree, m. tr., Zizyphus jujuba
02 Water tank


 
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