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Plant name	badara
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Ziziphus jujuba Lam.
Sanskrit name	kola, badara, kolī
Hindi name	ber, berī
Tamil name	ilantai, ilantappaḻam
Malayalam name	ilanta, lantappaḻam, ilantappaḻam, peruntuṭali
English name	Indian jujube, Common jujube, Chinese date
Search occurrence	kola, badara, kolī, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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.

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