The Names Of Plants.pdf
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Names</strong> of <strong>Plants</strong><br />
byssitectus -a -um with a covering like fine linen, botanical Latin from bussinoj and<br />
tectum<br />
byzantinus -a -um, byzantius -a -um from Istanbul (Byzantium, Constantinople),<br />
Turkish<br />
cabbage from the medieval French name, caboche, for a head<br />
cabardensis -is -e from Cabar, Croatia<br />
Cabomba from a Guyanese vernacular name for Cabomba aquatica (Cabombaceae)<br />
cabralensis -is -e from the Brazilian mountain chain named for Pedro Alvares<br />
Cabral (1467–1520), Portuguese navigator<br />
cabrerensis -is -e from the environs of Cabrera, Dominican Republic, or for<br />
Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera, who founded Argentina’s second largest city,<br />
Cordoba, or for several other persons bearing the name Cabrera<br />
cabulicus -a -um from Kabul, Afghanistan<br />
cabuya a W Indian vernacular name for a Mauritius hemp-like fibre<br />
cac-, caco- bad-, dying or drying, kak-, kako-, kax-<br />
Cacalia Very-hurtful, kako-lian (name used by Dioscorides)<br />
cacaliifolius -a -um with leaves resembling those of Cacalia, Cacalia-folium<br />
cacao Aztec name, kakahuatl, for the cacao tree, <strong>The</strong>obroma cacao (cognate with the<br />
Nahuatl vernacular, xocoatl, cocoa and chocolate)<br />
cacaponensis -is -e from the valley of the Cacapon river (confluent with the<br />
Potomac river), western Virginia, USA<br />
cacatuus -a -um brightly coloured, botanical Latin from Malayan, kakatua<br />
Caccinia for Mateo Caccini, seventeenth-century plant introducer of Florence<br />
cacharensis -is -e from the Cachar administrative district of Assam<br />
cachemerianus -a -um, cachemiricus -a -um from Kashmir, W Himalaya<br />
(Cachemere)<br />
cachinalensis -is -e from Cachinal, N Chile<br />
Cachrys Parched barley, kaxruj, or Pine-cone-like, cachrys (the appearance of the<br />
fruit)<br />
cachyridifolius -a -um having strobilar-looking leaves, cachrys-folius<br />
cacomorphus -a -um of bad form, ugly-looking, kako-morfh<br />
cacti- cactus-like- (originally the Greek kaktoj was an Old World spiny plant, not<br />
one of the Cactaceae)<br />
cacticolus -a -um living with or on cacti, Cactus-colo<br />
cactiformis -is -e succulent, cactus-like, Cactus-forma<br />
Cactus Linnaeus’ name, Cactus, derived from the former Melocactus (melon thistle)<br />
(Cactaceae)<br />
cacumenus -a -um, cacuminis -is -e of the point, of the mountain top, cacumen,<br />
cacuminis<br />
Cadia from the Arabic vernacular name, kadi<br />
cadmeus -a -um for Cadmus, or from the area he established at <strong>The</strong>bes (Cadmea)<br />
cadmicus -a -um with a metallic appearance, cadmia<br />
caduci- falling-, abscising-, caducus<br />
caducifolius -a -um having leaves that fall early, caduceus-leaved, caducus-folium<br />
caducus -a -um transient, not persisting, caducous, caducus<br />
cadens tumbling, cascading, becoming pendulous, cado, cadere, cecidi, casum<br />
caeciliae for Cecil J. Brooks (1875–c. 1953) who collected plants in Borneo<br />
caecus -a -um blind, obscure, uncertain, dead-ended, (intestinus-)caecus<br />
caelestis -is -e celestial blue, caelestis<br />
caeno-, caenos- new, unheard of, strange, fresh-, recent-, kainoj, kainocaenosus<br />
-a -um muddy, growing on mud, caenum<br />
caeruleatus -a -um blued, made blue, blue-tinged, caeruleus<br />
caeruleoracemosa having racemes of sky-blue flowers, caeruleus-racemosus<br />
caerulescens turning blue, conspicuously blue, caeruleus-esse<br />
caeruleus -a -um dark sky-blue, dark sea-green, dusky, caeruleus<br />
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