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In Theravada Buddhism, this plant is said to have been used as the tree for achieving enlightenment, or Bodhi, by the twenty-first Buddha, named Phussa Buddha. [ 15 ] In Hinduism, the myrobalan, called the āmalaka in Sanskrit , is sacred to all three members of the Trimurti , the Hindu supreme trinity of Brahma , Vishnu , and Shiva .
The common name myrobalan can refer to several unrelated fruit-bearing plant species: Myrobalan plum (Prunus cerasifera), also called cherry plum and myrobalan plum; Emblic myrobalan (Phyllanthus emblica), also called Amla and Amalaki; In the genus Terminalia: Beleric myrobalan (Terminalia bellirica), also called Bibhitaki and Belliric myrobalans
a-, an-: Pronunciation: /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/. Origin: Ancient Greek: ἀ-, ἀν-(a, an-). Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that ...
Sapling. Phyllanthus acidus is an intermediary between a shrub and tree, reaching 2 to 9 m (6½ to 30 ft) high. [2] The tree's dense and bushy crown is composed of thickish, tough main branches, at the end of which are clusters of deciduous, greenish, 15-to-30-cm long branchlets.
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Amalaka Ekadashi or Amalaki Ekadashi (Sanskrit: आमलकी एकादशी, romanized: Āmalakī Ekādaśī) is a Hindu holy day, celebrated on the 11th day of the waxing moon, in the lunar month of Phalguna (February–March).
It includes taxon names derived from any language or even arbitrarily derived, [3] and consequently there is no single consistent pronunciation system. When speakers of different languages use Botanical Latin in speech, they use pronunciations influenced by their own languages, or, notably in French, there may be variant spellings based on the ...
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...