शतघ्नी f. (
-घ्नी)
1. A weapon; it is generally supposed to be a sort of fire-arms, or the ancient Indian rocket, but it is also described as a stone set round with iron spikes.
2. A female scorpion.
3. A plant, (Galedupa arborea.)
4. A disease of the throat, apparently enlarge- ment of the tonsils.
E. शत a hundred,
हन् to kill, affs.
अण् and
ङीष् and the radical letters changed.