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སེང་ལྡེང་གི་ཤིང་། | Glossary of Terms
སེང་ལྡེང་གི་ཤིང་།
seng ldeng gi shing
khadira
- Term
- Catechu
- སེང་ལྡེང་།
- seng ldeng
- khadira
Monier-Williams s.v. khadira: “Acacia Catechu (having very hard wood, the resin of which is used in medicine, called ‘Catechu,’ ‘Khayar,’ ‘Terra japonica’).”
- Cutch
- སེང་ལྡེང་གི་ཤིང་།
- seng ldeng gi shing
- khadira
Acaia catechu according to the Pandanus Database of Plants.
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- Cutch tree
- སེང་ལྡེང་།
- seng ldeng
- khadira
Acacia catechu.
- Khadira
- སེང་ལྡེང་།
- seng ldeng
- khadira
Acacia catechu; cutch tree, kutch tree.