any living organism excluding plants, esp. of the lowest organisation as worms, insects.

in gen. an animal.

a kind of soft-bodied, parasitic worm that infects the intestine in humans.

ಜಂತಿನ ಓಮ jantina ōma the plant Artemisia maritima of Asteraceae family; wormwood; worm seed plant; ಜಂತಿನ ಪುಡಿ jantina puḍi a colourless, poisonous, crystalline compound, C15H18O3, obtained from certain species of wormwood and formerly used in medicine to expel worms and other parasites from the intestinal tract.

one of the hard bodies attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the pretension and mastication of food, and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel; a tooth.

a tooth developed to a great length, usu. one of a pair, as in the elephant, walrus, and wild boar; a tusk.

the width of a long cloth as manufactured (before it is cut for any purpose).

a cross-beam of a building, serving as a support for the roof.

= ಜಂತಿ.