a shrub, herb, creeper or young tree; gen. characterised by the ability to carry on photosynthesis in its cells which contain chloroplasts and have cellulose in the cell wall.

a perennial plant with a woody self-supporting main stem or trunk when mature and usu. unbranched for some distance above the ground; a tree.

a large uncultivated area covered chiefly with naturally grown trees and shrubs and other plants; a plant.

ಗಿಡವಾಗಿ ಬಗ್ಗದ್ದು ಮರವಾಗಿ ಬಗ್ಗೀತೆ? giḍavāgi baggaddu maravāgi baggīte? (prov.) it is easy to mould a child than a grown-up person; 'you caṇt teach an old woman to dance'.

sticky unclean matter; dirt.

any of small arthropod animals belonging to the class of Insecta, characterised, in the adult state, by division of the body into head, thorax, and abdomen, three pairs of legs on the thorax, and, usu., two pairs of membranous wings, including beetles, bees, flies, wasps, and mosquitoes; an insect.

the part at, toward or near either of the extremities of anything; tip; end.

a flat, coarse fabric made of straw used as a floor covering or to sit on; a straw mat.

the outskirts of a city or town.

a time; period of time; a season.

the hip and loins; the hollow above the hips.

the fleshy side of a person or animal between the ribs and the hip; the flank.

the dead body of a person; corpse.

a place for the burial or cremation of the dead bodies; a cemetry; a crematory.

a portable framework on which a corpse is carried.

a long, broad, thick wooden board; a plank.

a plant lasting or living only one year or one season.

The grass Saccharum sara (= S. munja) of Poaceae family.

plentifulness; bountifulness; excessiveness; abundance.

either of the flat surfaces alongside the forehead, in front of each ear of an elephant; the temples.

either of the two bones or bony parts that hold the teeth and frame the mouth in most vertebrates; the jaw.

a pointed straight missile to be shot from a bow; an arrow.

a social convention carried on by tradition and any violation of which is disapproved by the social system; a custom.

the fine, dust-like mass of grains that are produced in the anthers or microspore sacs of seed plants, containing the male sexual cells (gametophytes) of the plant; pollen.

a man belonging to brāhmaṇa caste.

the auditory sensation produced by vibrations in air, water, etc.; sound.

something lent, esp. a sum of money to be returned; a loan; the thing or money loaned.

ಕಡ ಹುಟ್ಟಿ ಬಡವ ಕೆಟ್ಟ kaḍa huṭṭi baḍava keṭṭa hewho goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing; ಕಡ ಸಿಕ್ಕುವುದಾದರೆ, ಹಡಗೇ ನನಗಿರಲಿ kaḍa sikkuvudādare, haḍagē nanagirali borrowing tempts one to be always acquisitive.

a shallow place in a stream, river, etc., where one can cross; a ford; a place or route of carriage over water; the place where a ferry docks on either shore; a ferry.

a largedeer (Cervus unicolor) with coarse hair, a short, erectile mane, and three-pointed antlers; an Indian sambar.

a stretch of rising land at the edge of a body of water, esp. a river.

a basin at the bottom of a tree or a levelled wet agricultural land with raised mound on all sides, for holding water.