The Names Of Plants.pdf
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Names</strong> of <strong>Plants</strong><br />
extensus -a -um reaching out, extended, past participle of extendo, extendere, extendi,<br />
extensum<br />
extra- outside-, beyond-, over and above-, extra<br />
extractus -a -um drawn out, removed from, extraho, extrahere, extraxi, extractum<br />
extremiorientalis -is -e from the most eastern part of its range, extremi-(oriens, orientis)<br />
(classically, from the Indian subcontinent)<br />
extrorsus -a -um beyond the start, directed outwards from the central axis, extraorsus<br />
(outwards facing, extrorse, stamens)<br />
extrusus -a -um thrust out, burgeoning, extrudo, extrudere, extrusi, extrusum<br />
exudans producing a (sticky-)secretion, exuding, sweating, ex-(sudo, sudare, sudavi,<br />
sudatum)<br />
exultatus -a -um leaping up, joyful, ex-(salio, salire, salui, saltum)<br />
exuvialis -is -e, exuviatus -a -um moulting, with stripping or peeling (outer layer),<br />
exuo, exuere, exui, exutum<br />
faba, fava the old Latin name for the broad bean, perhaps from fago, to eat<br />
(Fabaceae)<br />
fabaceus -a -um, fabae- bean-like, resembling Faba<br />
fabago Faba-like, with feminine suffix -ago<br />
fabarius -a -um of beans, bean-like, faba<br />
Fabiana for Archbishop Francisco Fabian y Fuero (1719–1801), Spanish patron of<br />
botanical studies (false heath)<br />
fabri of artisans; skilfully produced, for building, fabricor, fabricare, fabricatus<br />
(timber of Quercus, Abies and Acer fabri)<br />
Fabricia for Johann Christian Fabricius (1745–1808), Danish student of Linnaeus<br />
(NB: Hieronymus Fabricius at Aquapendente, Italy (1537–1619) is usually<br />
referred to simply as Fabricius, and was a pioneer anatomist and microscopist)<br />
facetus -a -um humorous, elegant, fine, facetus<br />
Fadyenia for James MacFadyen (1800–50), author of a Flora of Jamaica<br />
faenum hay, fodder, faenum (faenus is profit or interest)<br />
faenum-graecum Greek-hay, fenugreek, faenum-Graecia<br />
faeroensis -is -e from the Faeroes group of islands, N Atlantic Ocean<br />
fagi of beech, living on Fagus (Phyllaphis, homopteran gall insect)<br />
fagi-, fagineus -a -um beech-like, Fagusfagifolius<br />
-a -um having leaves similar to those of Fagus, Fagus-folium<br />
Fagonia for Monsignor Fagon (1638–1718), physician to Louis XIV of France<br />
Fagopyrum (Fagopyron), fagopyrum Beech-kernel, fago-purhn (buckwheat is from<br />
the Dutch boekweit)<br />
Fagus the Latin name, fagus, for the beech tree, from fago, for the edible seed of<br />
beech (Fagaceae)<br />
falacinus -a -um pillar-like, columnar, fala, falae<br />
falc-, falci-, falco- curved like a scythe or sickle blade, falx, falcis (leaves, leaflets,<br />
petals or bracts) (cognate with falcon)<br />
Falcaria Sickle, falx, falcis (the shape of the leaf-segments)<br />
falcarius -a -um, falcatorius -a -um of the sickle maker, sickle shaped, falx, falcis<br />
Falcatula Somewhat-sickle-shaped, feminine diminutive from falcatus (the pods)<br />
falcatulus -a -um shaped like a small sickle, diminutive of falcatus<br />
falcatus -a -um, falci- sickle-shaped, falcate, falcatus<br />
falcifolius -a -um with sickle-shaped leaves, falcis-folium<br />
falciformis -is -e sickle-like, falcis-forma<br />
falcinellus -a -um like small scythes, diminutive of falx, falcis (the pinnae)<br />
falcipetalus -a -um having curved petals, botanical Latin from falcis and petalon<br />
falconeri for either Dr Hugh Falconer (1805–65), Superintendent of Botanic Garden<br />
at Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, or William Falconer (1850–1928), gardener at<br />
Harvard, USA<br />
falcorostrus -a -um having a curved beak, falcis-rostrum<br />
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