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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of labiate herbs and shrubs, type of the tribe Ocimoideæ, known by the short corolla-tube and the deflexed fruiting calyx, with the ovate posterior tooth largest and decurrent.
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- noun basil
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Thus when the scientists of the Indian Council of Medical Research were extolling the virtues of the plant ocimum sanctum in stress relief, she asked them what the Indian name was.
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Thus when the scientists of the Indian Council of Medical Research were extolling the virtues of the plant ocimum sanctum in stress relief, she asked them what the Indian name was.
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Thus when the scientists of the Indian Council of Medical Research were extolling the virtues of the plant ocimum sanctum in stress relief, she asked them what the Indian name was.
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