The Names Of Plants.pdf
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Names</strong> of <strong>Plants</strong><br />
Fatsia from a Japanese vernacular name, fa tsi<br />
fatuosus -a -um silly, pompous, fatuus<br />
fatuus -a -um not good, insipid, tasteless, simple, foolish, fatuus<br />
Faucaria Throat, fauces, faucium (the leaves gape apart)<br />
faucilalis -is -e, faucius -a -um wide-mouthed, throated, fauces, faucium<br />
fauconnettii for Dr Charles Fauconnet (1811–75), of Geneva<br />
faurei (fauriei) for either Abbé Faure, director of the Grenoble Seminary, or Abbé<br />
Urbain Faure (1847–1915), a missionary in Japan<br />
faustus -a -um lucky, auspicious, faustus<br />
favigerus -a -um bearing honey-glands, favus-gero<br />
favoris-is -e favourable, agreeable; popular, supportive, favor, favoris<br />
favosus -a -um cavitied, faveolate, honeycombed, favus, favi<br />
febrifugus -a -um fever-dispelling (medicinal property) cognate through old<br />
English, feferfuge, with feverfew, (febris, febris)-(fugo, fugare, fugavi, fugatum)<br />
fecetus -a -um synthesized, made, created, facio, facere, feci, factum<br />
fecundator, fecundatrix fertilizer, fecundo, fecundare (botanically, a misnomer for<br />
Andricus, the oak-galling cynipid)<br />
fecundus -a -um fruitful, fertile, fecund, fecundus<br />
Fedia etymology uncertain<br />
fedtschenkoianus -a -um, fedtschenkoi for either Olga Fedtschenko (1845–1921) or her<br />
son Boris Fedtschenko (1873–1947), Russian botanists<br />
Feijoa for Don da Silva Feijoa, botanist of San Sebastian, Spain<br />
fejeensis -is -e from the Fiji Islands, S Pacific<br />
Felicia for a German official named Felix at Regensburg (d. 1846), but some interpret<br />
it as felix, felicis cheerful (blue marguerite)<br />
felinus -a -um relating to or affecting cats, feles, felis; fruitful, favourable, felix, felicis<br />
felis-linguus -a -um cat’s-tongue, felis-lingua<br />
Felix Fruitful, felix, felicis<br />
felleus -a -um as bitter as gall, full of bile, fel, fellis<br />
felosmus -a -um foul-smelling, fel-osmh<br />
femina female, femina, feminae<br />
fenas toxic, poisonous, fenw to murder (some interpret as hay-like, faenum, but<br />
faenum habet in cornu, he is dangerous)<br />
Fendlera, fendleri for August Fendler (1813–83), German naturalist and explorer in<br />
New Mexico<br />
Fendlerella diminutive from Fendlera<br />
fenestralis -is -e, fenestratus -a -um with window-like holes or openings, fenestra, fenestrae<br />
(Ouvirandra fenestralis)<br />
fenestrellatus -a -um latticed with small window-like holes, diminutive of fenestra<br />
fennicus -a -um from Finland, Finnish (Fennica)<br />
-fer, -ferus, -fera, -ferum -bearing, -carrying, ferw, fero, ferre, tuli, latum<br />
ferax fruitful, ferax, feracis<br />
ferdinandi-coburgii for King Ferdinand of Bulgaria (1861–1948), alpine plant<br />
grower<br />
ferdinandi-regis as ferdinandi-coburgii<br />
ferganensis -is -e, fergenicus -a -um from the Ferghana region of Uzbekistan<br />
fergusonii for W. Ferguson (1820–87), collector in Ceylon<br />
fernambucensis -is -e from Pernambuco state, Brazil<br />
fero-, ferus -a -um wild, feral, fera, ferae<br />
ferox very prickly, ferocious, ferox, ferocis<br />
Ferraria for Giovani Battista Ferrari (1584–1655), Italian botanist<br />
ferreus -a -um rusty-brown coloured, durable, iron-hard, of iron, ferrum, ferri<br />
ferruginascens turning rusty-brown, ferrugo, ferruginis<br />
ferrugineus -a -um rusty-brown in colour, ferrugo, ferruginis<br />
ferruginiflorus -a -um having rusty-brown flowers, ferrugineus-florum<br />
ferruginosus -a -um conspicuously rust-coloured, ferrugo, ferruginis<br />
ferrum-equinum horse-shoe-like, ferrum-equinus (horse-shoe orchid)<br />
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