m. mustard; mustard seed; grain of mustard seed (as a measure of weight of very various value): -sneha, m. mustard oil; -½aruna, m. a demon hostile to children.
noun (masculine feminine neuter) a kind of poison (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a mustard-seed used as a weight (RasArṇ: of 6 rajas, also called siddhārtha) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
any minute weight (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Brassica campestris Linn. (G.J. Meulenbeld (1974), 606)
Brassica juncea Coss. (G.J. Meulenbeld (1974), 607)
Brassica nigra Koch
Eruca sativa Miller
mustard (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
mustardseed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Panicum colonum Linn. (G.J. Meulenbeld (1974), 607) Frequency rank 1806/72933
noun (masculine feminine neuter) a kind of poisonous plant
black mustard (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
Sinapis Ramosa (the seed used as a weight 3 Likṣās 1/3 of a Gaurasarshapa) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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