Categories: Medicinal Plant
Aegle_marmelos (Wikipedia)
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| Bael | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Rutaceae |
| Genus: | Aegle Corrêa |
| Species: | A. marmelos |
| Binomial name | |
| Aegle marmelos | |
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Aegle marmelos, commonly known as bael (or bili or bhel), also Bengal quince, golden apple, Japanese bitter orange, stone apple or wood apple, is a species of tree native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is present in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, and Malesia as a naturalized species. The tree is considered to be sacred by Hindus.
Bael (Wiktionary)
English
Alternative forms
- bel
Etymology
From Hindi बिल्व (bilv) or Marathi बेल (bel), from Sanskrit विल्व (vilva) or बैल्व (bailva).
Noun
bael (plural baels)
- A tropical fruit tree from India, Aegle marmelos.
- 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra, Orient Black Swan 2015, p. 2:
- In the courtyard there were fruit and flowering trees appropriate for the worship of Mahadev, as also a bel tree
- 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra, Orient Black Swan 2015, p. 2:
