The Names Of Plants.pdf
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Names</strong> of <strong>Plants</strong><br />
Cicerbita Italian name for Sonchus oleraceus, from Marcellus Empiricus’ name,<br />
Cicharba, for a thistle<br />
cichoriaceus -a -um chicory-like, resembling Cichorium<br />
Cichorium <strong>The</strong>ophrastus’ name, kixwrion, from Arabic, kesher (cognate with<br />
cicoree, chicory, and succory)<br />
ciclus -a -um mangel-wurzel-like, old name Cicla<br />
ciconius -a -um resembling the neck of a stork, ciconia<br />
Cicuta the Latin name for Conium maculatum<br />
cicutarius -a -um resembling Cicuta, with large bi- or tri-pinnate leaves<br />
-cidius -a -um -murder, -cide, -killing, caedo, caedere, cecidi, caesum<br />
Cienfuegosia for Bernard Cienfuego, sixteenth-century Spanish botanist<br />
cigarettiferus -a -um cigarette-bearing (the white sheaths of Cheiridopsis cigarettifera<br />
sheath the lower third of the narrow, greyish-green leaves)<br />
cili- eyelash-, cilium, cili- (marginal cilia)<br />
cilianensis -is -e from Ciliani, N Italy<br />
ciliaris -is -e, ciliatus -a -um fringed, ciliatus (with hairs extending from an edge)<br />
ciliatifolius -a -um having hair-fringed leaves, cilium-folius<br />
ciliatulus -a -um somewhat fringed, diminutive of ciliatus<br />
ciliceus -a -um Cilician, from S Turkey<br />
cilicicus -a -um from Cilicia, S Turkey<br />
cilicioides eyelash-like, cilium-oides (the fibrils within the cap)<br />
ciliicalyx with a hair-fringed calyx, cili-calyx<br />
ciliidens having hair-fringed teeth, cili-dens<br />
cilinodus -a -um with finely hairy nodes, cili-nodus<br />
ciliolaris -is -e, ciliolatus -a -um with a minutely fringed appearance, diminutive of<br />
ciliatus<br />
ciliospinosus -a -um with hair-like spines, cilium-spinosus<br />
ciliosus -a -um markedly fringed with hairs, comparative of ciliatus<br />
cilius -a -um any superficial fine-hair-like feature, fringe, cilium<br />
-cillus -a -um -lesser, diminutive suffix<br />
cimex a bug, cimex, cimicis<br />
cimicarius -a -um of bugs, bug-like, cimex, cimicis (the oily smell)<br />
cimicidius -a -um, cimicinus -a -um of bugs or small insects, cimes, cimicis<br />
cimiciferus -a -um bug-bearing, cimicis-fero (appearance of small flowers or fruits)<br />
Cimicifuga Bug-repeller, cimicis-(fugo, fugare, fugavi, fugatum) (bugbanes)<br />
cimiciodorus -a -um smelling of bugs, cimicis-(odoro, odorare)<br />
cinaeus -a -um glaucous, ashen, ash-grey, cinis, cineris<br />
Cinchona (Chinchona) for the Countess of Chinchon, wife of the Viceroy of Peru.<br />
She was cured of fever with the bark, the source of quinine, in 1638, and introduced<br />
it to Spain in 1640. In Qhuechua, the medicinal bark, kina kina, became<br />
Portugese, quinaquina, and our quinine<br />
cincinalis -is -e, cincinnatus -a -um with crisped hair, cincinnus, curly-haired,<br />
cincinnatus<br />
cincinus -a -um curled, cincinnus<br />
cinctulus -a -um with a small girdle, diminutive of cinctus<br />
cinctus -a -um, -cinctus -a -um girdled, -edged, cinctus<br />
cineoliferus -a -um with moving parts, shaking, kinew-ferw<br />
cineraceus -a -um, cinerarius -a -um ash-coloured, covered with ash-grey felted<br />
hairs, cinis, cineris<br />
cinerascens, cinerescens becoming ashen, cineris-essentia<br />
Cineraria, cinerarius -a -um Ashen-one, cinis, cineris (the foliage colour)<br />
cineraria-oleifolia with ashen olive-like leaves, botanical Latin, cineris-olea-folium<br />
cinerariifolius -a -um having leaves resembling those of Cineraria, Cinerariafolium<br />
cinereus -a -um ash-grey, cinis, cineris<br />
cinerioides ash-like, (cinis, cineris)-oides (the colour of grey coral fungus)<br />
cingulatus zoned, girdled, cingulus, cingulum<br />
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