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Old 07-07-2007, 02:00 PM posted to sci.bio.botany
P. van Rijckevorsel P. van Rijckevorsel is offline
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PLEASE LET ME KNOW THE BOTANICAL NAMES OF THE
FOLLOWING PLANTS WHICH ARE IN HINDI
1. AAGI
2. TELIYA KUNDAR
AWAITING YOUR PRECIOUS REPLY.
REGARDS
AALAM
ambur.India


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Converting vernacular names (in Hindi or otherwise) to botanical names is a
hazardous business. One and the same vernacular name may well be used for
many different plants, each in quite local usage. "Aagi" in one village may
be something quite different from what it is in another village, fifty miles
further. Or not.

This is all the more so in a country as big as India. To do this with any
degree of reliability it needs someone expert in both the language involved
and in the local flora.
PvR