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Annona squamosa L. details in Pandanus database of Indian plant names

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Latin name	Annona squamosa L.
Family	Annonaceae
Identified with (Lat)	Annona asiatica L.
Identified with (Skt)	sītāphala
Identified with (Hin)	sītāphal
Identified with (Tam)	cīttā(ppaḻam)
Identified with (Mal)	sītappaḻam, attaccakka
Identified with (Eng)	Custard apple, Sugar apple
Search occurrence	sītāphala, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
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Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 1218) sītāphala, m. "bearing Sitā’s fruit", Annona Squamosa, MW.; n. the fruit itself, ib.

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