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Indica (or indicum) means "of India", or "Indian", in Latin and is applied to things connected with India:



Other meanings of Indica apparently lacking a direct connection with India include:








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Indica (or indicum) means "of India", or "Indian", in Latin and is applied to things connected with India:

  • The specific epithets indica and indicum are used in binomial nomenclature
    Binomial nomenclature

    In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is called binominal nomenclature , binary nomenclature , or the binomial classification system....
     to indicate species (or subspecies) of plants, animals etc thought to originate in, or associated with, India.
    • Examples of such species are Mangifera indica (mango
      Mango

      Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae....
      ), Juniperus indica
      Juniperus indica

      Juniperus indica is a juniper native to high altitudes in the Himalaya, occurring from the northern Indus River Valley in Kashmir east to western Yunnan in China....
       (black juniper), Azadirachta indica (neem
      Neem

      Neem is a tree in the mahogany family Meliaceae. It is one of two species in the genus Azadirachta, and is native to India, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Pakistan growing in tropical and semi-tropical regions....
      ), and Lagerstroemia indica (crape myrtle).
    • Indica is a long-grain variety of rice
      Rice

      Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in tropical Latin America, and East Asia, South Asia and Southeast Asia, making it the second-most consumed cereal grain, after maize....
       (Oryza sativa subsp. indica), as opposed to the short-grain Japonica (O. sativa subsp. japonica).
    • Another example of a botanic subspecies is Cannabis sativa subsp. indica
      Cannabis sativa

      Cannabis sativa is an annual plant in the Cannabaceae family. It is a herb that has been used throughout recorded history by humans as a source of fiber, for its seed oil, as food , as a drug , as medicine , and for spiritual purposes ....
       (a type of marijuana
      Cannabis (drug)

      Cannabis, also known as Marijuana or marihuana, or ganja , is a psychoactive drug extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, or more often, Cannabis sativa subsp....
      , considered to be a separate species, Cannabis indica, by some authorities).
  • Tata Indica
    Tata Indica

    The Tata Indica is a hatchback automobile range manufactured by Tata Motors of India. The models are also exported to Europe, Africa and other countries from late 2004....
     is the name of a car sold by the Indian company TATA Motors
    Tata Motors

    Tata Motors Limited, formerly known as TELCO , is a multinational corporation headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is India's largest passenger automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturing company....
    .
  • Indica (Megasthenes), the title of Megasthenes
    Megasthenes

    Megasthenes was a Ancient Greece traveller and geographer. He was born in Asia Minor and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of Syria to the court of Sandrocottus of India, in Pataliputra....
    ' account of his travels in South Asia
    South Asia

    South Asia, also known as Southern Asia, is the southern region of the Asian continent, which comprises the sub-Himalayan countries and, for some authorities , also includes the adjoining countries on the west and the east....
     as ambassador in Chandragupta Maurya
    Chandragupta Maurya

    Chandragupta Maurya , sometimes known simply as Chandragupta , was the founder of the Maurya Empire. Chandragupta succeeded in bringing together most of the Indian subcontinent....
    's court.
  • Indica
    Indica (Arrian)

    Indica is the name of an ancient book about History of India written by Arrian, one of the main ancient historians of Alexander the Great. The book mainly tells the story of Alexander's officer Nearchus? voyage from India to the Persian Gulf after Alexander the Great?s conquest of the Indus River....
     is the title of Arrian
    Arrian

    File:Flavius_Arrianus.jpgLucius Flavius Arrianus 'Xenophon , known in English as Arrian , and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Ancient Rome historian , a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman and Byzantine Greece period....
    's account of Nearchus
    Nearchus

    Nearchus or Nearch was one of the officers, a navarch, in the army of Alexander the Great. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander the Great's expedition in India is preserved in Arrian's account, the Indica ....
    ' voyage from India after Alexander the Great
    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
    's conquest.
  • Indica is the Latinized title of Abu Rayhan al-Biruni's Ta'rikh al-Hind (Chronicles of India).


Other meanings of Indica apparently lacking a direct connection with India include:
  • Indica Gallery
    Indica Gallery

    Indica Gallery was a counterculture art gallery in Mason's Yard , Mayfair, London, England during the late 1960s, in the basement of the Indica Bookshop co-owned by John Dunbar, Peter Asher and Barry Miles....
     was a London art gallery in the 1960s. Set up by John Dunbar, Barry Miles and Peter Asher, it was the place where John Lennon and Yoko Ono met.
  • Indica Records
    Indica Records

    Indica Records is a Canadian record label based in Montreal, Quebec, founded by rock band Grim Skunk in 1997 in music. The label was put together by the band, manager Simon Gallipeault, label manager Kyria Kilakos and head of promo Mariana Gianelli....
     is a Quebec record label.
  • Indica is a solo project from Eliad Grundland, the man behind the Israeli psychedelic trance group Space Buddha
    Space Buddha

    Space Buddha is a psychedelic trance group from Israel.Space Buddha is Eliad Grundland , this project was created in the year 1997 & since then had released six powerful albums....
    .
  • Indica
    Indica (Finnish band)

    Indica is a Finland pop rock group founded in 2002. Jani Jalonen of Sony Music Entertainment became interested in the group, and a recording contract was signed 2003....
     is a pop/rock band from Finland.
  • Indica
    Indica (Argentina band)

    Indica are a music band of psychedelic Electronic music Rock music of Argentina formed in Buenos Aires in 2002. The group is compound for Rub?n Farzati , David Vera and Gast?n Del Popolo that he united to the band at the end of 2006 to finish assembling the rhythmic part....
     is an electro-psychedellic band from Argentina.
  • Indica Wine is an Old Vine Carignan/Petite Sirah blend from Lioco Wines.