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Plant name	raktāmra
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Schleichera oleosa (Lour.) Oken - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Pistacia oleosa Lour.
Sanskrit name	mukūlaka, raktāmra, lākṣāvṛkṣa
Hindi name	kusum, kausum
Tamil name	pūmarata, pūvattipūvam
Malayalam name	pūvam
English name	Lac tree, Ceylon oak, Macassar-oil tree
Search occurrence	mukūlaka, raktāmra, lākṣāvṛkṣa, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 862) raktāmra, m. a species of plant, L.

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