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Indica is classical Greek and Latin for "of India". It may refer to the following:
Indica ( Indike) is the name of a short book about 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 Valley. However, much of the importance of the work comes from Arrian’s in depth asides describing the history, geography, and culture of the ancient Indian subcontinent. Arrian wrote his Indica in the Ionic dialect, taking Herodotus for his literary mode.
Indica is also the name of a similar book by Megasthenes that also describes the history of India and was a major source from which Arrian drew.
Índica is an Argentine psychedelic rock music band formed in the year 2006 in Buenos Aires, Argentina when Rubén Farzati and David Vera meets, both with the same aim, to form a unique and personal musical project, trying to generate a space unexisting in the musical scenario. The band is named after a counterculture art gallery of the late 60s, located in Masons Yard, London, England.
Indica is a Finnish symphonic metal with pop rock tendencies group founded in 2001. Jani Jalonen of Sony Music became interested in the group, and a recording contract was signed 2003. Indica's first album, Ikuinen virta was released in 2004. It has since sold platinum in Finland.
Indica supported Nightwish during their Scandinavian tour 2007 in which they performed English versions of their songs. Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish produced their next album, Valoissa, while many of the songs employed the orchestral talents of Pip Williams and the literary talents of their lyrics collaborator Rory Winston. The band was also added to the line-up for Nightwish's 2nd half of the Dark Passion Play Tour with Pain.
Indica ( Indika) is the name of a book by the classical Greek physician Ctesias purporting to describe India. Written in the fifth century BC, it is the first known Greek reference to that distant land. Ctesias was the court physician to king Artaxerxes II of Persia, and the book is not based on his own experiences, but on stories brought to Persia by traders, along the Silk Road from Serica, a land north of China and India where domesticated silk originated.
Usage examples of "indica".
Indica also stocked her limited-edition book Grapefruit and had some of the Fluxus boxes and posters containing her work on the shelves.
Avena sativa, movements of oldish cotyledons, 499, 500 Averrhoa bilimbi, leaf asleep, 330 --, angular movements when going to sleep, 331335 --, leaflets exposed to bright sunshine, 447 Azalea Indica, circumnutation of stem, 208 B.
It is the drug derived from the Indian hemp, scientifically named Cannabis Indica, better known as hashish, or bhang, or a dozen other names in the East.
This is not like any other known drug--not even the famous Cannabis indica, hasheesh.
He extracted and refined the stimulating factors in alcohol, cocoa, heroin, and Mother Natures prize dope runner, cannabis indica.
It was a rapid-fire flow of Latin: Cynodon dactylon, Eleusine indica, Trifolium repens.
Cannabis indica is a treacherous narcotic, as every medical man knows full well.
Yet from 1842 until the 1890s, marijuana, generally called Cannabis Indica or Indian Hemp extractums, was one of the three items (after alcohol and opium) most used in patent and prescription drugs (in massive* doses, usually by oral ingestion).