Butea monosperma, the Glossary
Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.[1]
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80 relations: Agni, Bangladesh, Barbara Stoler Miller, Battle of Plassey, Bihar, Buddhism, Butea, Butea monosperma, Butein, Cambodia, Deciduous, Dizziness, Doaba, Dry season, East India Company, Erythrina, Flower, Folia Horticulturae, Fruit, Ganges, Ghee, Gita Govinda, Glossary of botanical terms, Harinder Singh Mehboob, Hindi, Hindus, Holi, Hypotension, India, Indonesia, Jayadeva, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jharkhand, Kamadeva, Kerala, Kerria lacca, Khushwant Singh, Labellum (botany), Lac (resin), Laos, Leaf, Leaflet (botany), Legume, Maha Shivaratri, Maharashtra, Malaysia, Medhaṅkara Buddha, Mumbai, Myanmar, Nambudiri, ... Expand index (30 more) »
- Symbols of Jharkhand
- Trees of Java
Agni
Agni (अग्नि) is the Hindu god of fire.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
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Barbara Stoler Miller
Barbara Stoler Miller (August 8, 1940 – April 19, 1993) was a scholar of Sanskrit literature.
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Battle of Plassey
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company, under the leadership of Robert Clive, over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757.
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Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
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Butea
Butea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the pea family, Fabaceae. Butea monosperma and Butea are Phaseoleae.
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Butea monosperma
Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. Butea monosperma and Butea monosperma are Phaseoleae, plants described in 1894, Symbols of Jharkhand, trees of Indo-China, trees of Java, trees of Peninsular Malaysia and trees of the Indian subcontinent.
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Butein
Butein is a chalcone of the chalconoids.
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Cambodia
Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.
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Deciduous
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
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Dizziness
Dizziness is an imprecise term that can refer to a sense of disorientation in space, vertigo, or lightheadedness.
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Doaba
Doaba, also known as Bist Doab or the Jalandhar Doab, is the region of Punjab, India that lies between the Beas River and the Sutlej River.
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Dry season
The dry season was a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.
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East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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Erythrina
Erythrina is a genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. Butea monosperma and Erythrina are Phaseoleae.
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Flower
A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).
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Folia Horticulturae
Folia Horticulturae is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal of the Polish Society of Horticultural Science publishing original research papers, short communications and review papers from all branches of horticulture.
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Fruit
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).
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Ganges
The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
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Ghee
Ghee is a type of clarified butter, originating from India.
Gita Govinda
The Gita Govinda (गीतगोविन्दम्; IAST: gītagovindam) is a work composed by the 12th-century Hindu poet, Jayadeva.
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Glossary of botanical terms
This glossary of botanical terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to botany and plants in general.
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Harinder Singh Mehboob
Harinder Singh Mehboob (born 1937, Chakk, in Lyallpur district Punjab, British India) was a Punjabi poet.
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Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Hindus
Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.
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Holi
Holi is a popular and significant Hindu festival celebrated as the Festival of Colours, Love, and Spring.
Hypotension
Hypotension, also known as low blood pressure, is a cardiovascular condition characterized by abnormally reduced blood pressure.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Jayadeva
Jayadeva (born), also spelt Jaideva, was a Sanskrit poet during the 12th century.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier.
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Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India.
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Kamadeva
Kama (कामदेव), also known as Kamadeva and Manmatha, is the Hindu god of erotic love, desire, pleasure and beauty, often portrayed alongside his consort and female counterpart, Rati.
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Kerala
Kerala (/), called Keralam in Malayalam, is a state on the Malabar Coast of India.
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Kerria lacca
Kerria lacca is a species of insect in the family Kerriidae, the lac insects.
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Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh FKC (born Khushal Singh, 2 February 1915 – 20 March 2014) was an Indian author, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician.
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Labellum (botany)
In botany, the labellum (or lip) is the part of the flower of an orchid or Canna, or other less-known genera, that serves to attract insects, which pollinate the flower, and acts as a landing platform for them.
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Lac (resin)
Lac is the resinous secretion of a number of species of lac insects, of which the most commonly cultivated is Kerria lacca.
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Laos
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (LPDR), is the only landlocked country and one of the two Marxist-Leninist states in Southeast Asia.
Leaf
A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.
Leaflet (botany)
A leaflet (occasionally called foliole) in botany is a leaf-like part of a compound leaf.
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Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
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Maha Shivaratri
Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in honour of the deity Shiva, between February and March.
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra (ISO: Mahārāṣṭra) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau.
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
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Medhaṅkara Buddha
Medhaṅkara Buddha is the second of the 27th buddhas who preceded the historical Gotama Buddha.He was also the second Buddha of the Sāramaṇḍa kalpa.
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Mumbai
Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
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Nambudiri
The Nambudiri, also transliterated as Nampoothiri, Nambūdiri, Namboodiri, Namboothiri and Nampūtiri, are a Malayali Brahmin caste, native to what is now the state of Kerala, India, where they constituted part of the traditional feudal elite.
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Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
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Palashi
Palashi or Plassey) is a town on the east bank of Bhagirathi River, located approximately 50 kilometres north of the city of Krishnanagar in Kaliganj CD Block in the Nadia District of West Bengal, India. It is particularly well known due to the Battle of Plassey fought there in June 1757, between the private army of the British East India Company and the army of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal.
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Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert
Paul Hermann Wilhelm Taubert (12 August 1862 – 1 January 1897) was a German botanist.
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Petal
Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.
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Petiole (botany)
In botany, the petiole is the stalk that attaches the leaf blade to the stem.
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Pinnation
Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis.
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Plain Tales from the Hills
Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling.
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Punjab
Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
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Raceme
A raceme or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers.
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Rigveda
The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).
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Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)The Times, (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12.
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Shantiniketan
Shantiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata.
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Shellac
Shellac is a resin secreted by the female lac bug on trees in the forests of India and Thailand.
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Shiva
Shiva (lit), also known as Mahadeva (Category:Trimurti Category:Wisdom gods Category:Time and fate gods Category:Indian yogis.
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South Asia
South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.
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Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Spring (season)
Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
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Tannin
Tannins (or tannoids) are a class of astringent, polyphenolic biomolecules that bind to and precipitate proteins and various other organic compounds including amino acids and alkaloids.
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Telangana
Telangana (ISO) is a state in India situated in the southern-central part of the Indian peninsula on the high Deccan Plateau.
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Telugu language
Telugu (తెలుగు|) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where it is also the official language.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and historically known as Siam (the official name until 1939), is a country in Southeast Asia on the Indochinese Peninsula.
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The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book is an 1894 collection of stories by the English author Rudyard Kipling.
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Tree
In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, usually supporting branches and leaves.
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's fifteenth-most populous country.
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West Bengal
West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.
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Yajurveda
The Yajurveda (यजुर्वेद,, from यजुस्, "worship", and वेद, "knowledge") is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals.
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Yamuna
The Yamuna is the second-largest tributary river of the Ganges by discharge and the longest tributary in India.
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See also
Symbols of Jharkhand
- Asian koel
- Butea monosperma
- Emblem of Jharkhand
- Indian elephant
- Shorea robusta
Trees of Java
- Aglaia rufinervis
- Butea monosperma
- Castanopsis javanica
- Chionanthus macrocarpus
- Cinnamomum cuspidatum
- Cinnamomum javanicum
- Cinnamomum sintoc
- Cryptocarya caesia
- Dacryodes rugosa
- Dendrocnide peltata
- Diospyros pendula
- Erythrina euodiphylla
- Knema intermedia
- Lithocarpus conocarpus
- Lithocarpus daphnoideus
- Lithocarpus kostermansii
- Melicope bonwickii
- Melicope glabra
- Palaquium sumatranum
- Palaquium xanthochymum
- Salak
- Shorea leprosula
- Shorea sumatrana
- Vatica bantamensis
- Voacanga foetida
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butea_monosperma
Also known as Bastard Teak, Bengal kino, Butea frondosa, Dhak flower, Erythrina monosperma, Kamar kas, Kamarkas, Palash, Parrot Tree, Plaso monosperma.
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