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Plant name	karkandhu
Language	Sanskrit
Latin name	Ziziphus oenoplia (L.) Mill. - please click to view full record
Latin name (synonyms)	Rhamnus oenoplia L.
Sanskrit name	karkandhu
Hindi name	makkāy
Tamil name	cūraiyilantai, cūraimuḷḷu
Malayalam name	tuṭali, ceṛiyalanta, tuṭari
English name	Jackal jujube
Search occurrence	karkandhu, in the Pandanus database of Sanskrit e-texts
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries	Monier-Williams: A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (p. 256) karkandhu, us, ūs mf. (fr. karka and √dhā Comm. on Uṇ. i, 95; according to others fr. karka and andhu, "a well"), Zizyphus Jujuba; (u) n. the fruit of this tree, the jujube berry, VS.; ŚBr.; KātyŚr.; Suśr. &c.; (us) m. a well without water, one dried up, Comm. on Uṇ. i, 28; N. of a man, RV. i, 112, 6; (ūs), f. a term or name applied to a fetus which is ten days old, BhP. iii, 31, 2.

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