prangos

See also: Prangos

English

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Etymology

From the native name in the vicinity of Tibet, northern India, or Pakistan.

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Noun

prangos (plural not attested)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Prangos of umbelliferous plants.
2. (botany) Prangos pabularia

Translations

Prangos pabularia

• Kashmiri: फित्रासाल्यून् (phitrāsālyūn)

References

• “prangos”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Further reading

• Encyclopaedia Metropolitana: Squeal-Zyg. (1845, Smedley and Rose): " […] but the most remarkable vegetable found in this region [Tibet] is the Prángós, which grows only in the neighbourhood of Drás, on the Sind'h, a stream which runs into the Lake of Kashmir. It is a new kind of umbellate, called Prangos pabularia, by Professor Lindley, […] "
• George Henderson (M.D.), Allan Octavian Hume (1873) Lahore to Yārkand: Incidents of the Route and Natural History of the Countries Traversed by the Expedition of 1870, Under T. D. Forsyth, page 39: “Below Pandrás the Prangos pabularia, which is called "prangos" in Tibetan, and was once supposed to be a cure for "rot" in sheep, is very abundant.”

Anagrams

• Sarpong