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ཨུ་ཤི་ཤ། | Glossary of Terms
ཨུ་ཤི་ཤ།
u shi sha
uśīra
- Term
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- Khaskhas grass
- ཨུ་ཤི་ར།
- u shi ra
- uśīra
Vetiveris zizanioides.
- Uśīra
- རྩྭ་ཨུ་ཤི་ར།
- rtswa u shi ra
- uśīra
Andropogon muricatus (a species of grass).
- Vetiver grass
- ཨུ་ཤི་ཤ།
- u shi sha
- uśīra
Vetiveria zizanioides according to the Pandanus Database of Plants. The Tibetan rendering u shi sha is almost certain a corruption for uśīka.