Summary:
Regional names given to plants by the local community exhibit a broad spectrum of information, which in turn reflects the depth of their understanding on plants. It is interesting to know that the local names given to the plants are, most often, homonyms (words that have same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings) in nature. One such name given to a plant in Tamil language is ‘Kattu kodi’, where in Kattu means tie and Kodi means twiner. The scientific name of the kattu kodi is Cocculus hirsutus (L.) W.
Theob. Name gameRegional names given to plants by the local community exhibit a broad spectrum of information, which, in turn, reflects the depth of their understanding on plants..