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Asiatic pennywort

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A low-growing South Asian herb in the celery family, of species Centella asiatica, eaten as a green for flavor and used in traditional medicine.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: gotu kola, Indian pennywort, spadeleaf

Antonyms: none provided

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24 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bengali: থান্কুনি (thankuni) — Centella asiatica
  • Burmese: မြင်းခွာ (mrang:hkwa) — Centella asiatica
  • Cebuano: hahanghalo — Centella asiatica
  • Cebuano: yabongyabong — Centella asiatica
  • Chinese Cantonese: 崩大碗 (bang1 daai6 wun2) — Centella asiatica
  • Chinese Cantonese: 雷公根 (leoi4 gung1 gan1) — Centella asiatica
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 鱟桸碗 /鲎桸碗 (háu-hiĕ-uāng) — Centella asiatica
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 鱟桸草 /鲎桸草 (háu-hiĕ-chāu) — Centella asiatica
  • Eastern Min Chinese: 乞食碗 (ké̤ṳk-siăh-uāng) — Centella asiatica
  • Chinese Mandarin: 積雪草 /积雪草 (jīxuěcǎo) — Centella asiatica
  • Chinese Mandarin: 崩大碗 (bēngdàwǎn) — Centella asiatica
  • Chinese Mandarin: 雷公根 (léigōnggēn) — Centella asiatica
  • Chinese: 雷公根 (lûi-kong-kin) — Centella asiatica
  • Finnish: rohtosammakonputki — Centella asiatica
  • French: fausse-violette (New Caledonia) — Centella asiatica
  • Hindi: मण्डूकपर्णी (maṇḍūkparṇī) — Centella asiatica
  • Japanese: 壺草 (tsubokusa) — Centella asiatica
  • Japanese: ゴツコラ (gotsukora) — Centella asiatica
  • Khiamniungan Naga: vèuthàinyù — Centella asiatica
  • Sinhalese: ගොටුකොල (goṭukola) — Centella asiatica
  • Sinhalese: හීන් ගොටුකොල (hīn goṭukola) — Centella asiatica
  • Tagalog: takip-suso — Centella asiatica
  • Vietnamese: rau má — Centella asiatica
  • Waray-Waray: yahong-yahong — Centella asiatica