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 Latin nameAllium cepa L.
 FamilyLiliaceae
 Identified with (Skt)palāṇḍu
 Identified with (Hin)pyāj
 Identified with (Tam)īruḷḷi, veṇkāyam
 Identified with (Mal)cuvannuḷḷi, ceṛiya uḷḷi
 Identified with (Eng)Onion
 Search occurrencepalāṇḍu, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 610)
palāṇḍu, m. (rarely n.) an onion, Mn.; Mbh.; Suśr. &c. (cf. Uṇ. i, 38, Sch.)


 
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