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Glossary<br />

Fremontia, fremontii, Fremontodendron for Major General John Charles Fremont<br />

(1813–90) who explored W North America<br />

frene- strap-, bridle-, curb-, frenum, frena, freni<br />

fresnoensis -is -e from Fresno County, California<br />

fretalis -is -e of Straits, fretum, fretus (fretensis Straits of Messina) (perhaps cognate<br />

with fret, a sea mist)<br />

Freycinetia for Admiral Freycinet (1779–1842), French circumnavigator<br />

Freylinia for L. Freylin, who compiled a catalogue of the plants of Buttigliera<br />

Marengo, N Italy c. 1810<br />

freynianus -a -um for Joseph Freyn (1845–1903), Czech botanist of Prague<br />

friburgensis -is -e from Friburgo, Brazil<br />

friderici-augustii for Friederich August II of Bavaria (1797–1854)<br />

frieseanus -a -um, friesii for Dr Elias Magnus Fries (1798–1874), Swedish cryptogamic<br />

botanist<br />

friesianus -a -um for Thore Magnus Fries (1832–1913), son of Dr Elias Magnus<br />

Fries, explorer<br />

friesicus -a -um from the N Sea coastal Friesland area of the Netherlands and<br />

Germany, including the Frisian Islands (Frisia)<br />

frigescens cooling, becoming inactive, frigesco, frigescere<br />

frigidus -a -um cold, of cold habitats, of cold localities, frigidus<br />

frikartii for the Swiss nurseryman, Frikart (Aster frikartii)<br />

frisicus -a -um, frisius -a -um from Friesland, Friesian (Frisia)<br />

frithii for Mathew Frith of the 1998 Kew Expedition to Cameroon<br />

Fritillaria Dice-box, fritillus (the shape of fritillary flowers)<br />

froebelii for Fröbel, nurserymen of Zurich c. 1874<br />

Froelichia, froelichii for Joseph A. Froelich (1766–1841), German physician and<br />

botanist<br />

frondeus -a -um having leafy frond-like branches, frons, frondis<br />

frondiscentis -is -e having leaf-like petals, phyllodic, frondis-essentia<br />

frondosus -a -um leafy, frons, frondis<br />

fructifer -era -erum fruit-bearing, fruitful, fructus-fero<br />

fructu- fruit-, fructus, fructofructu-albo<br />

white-fruited, fructus-albus (berried)<br />

fructu-coccineo red-fruited, fructus-coccineus (berried)<br />

fructuosus -a -um fruitful, comparative of fructus<br />

frumentaceus -a -um grain-producing, giving corn, frumentum<br />

frumentarius -a -um pertaining to grain, frumentum<br />

frustulentus -a -um appearing to be of many small pieces, full of crumbs,<br />

frustulentus<br />

frutecorus -a -um, fruticorus -a -um of thickets, fruticetum<br />

frutescens shrubby, becoming shrubby, frutex-essentia<br />

frutetorus -a -um of scrubland or the bush, amongst shrubs, frutex, fruticis<br />

frutex shrub, bush, frutex, fruticis<br />

fruticans bushing, sprouting, present participle of fruticor, fruticare<br />

fruticicolus -a -um living in bushy habitats, fruticetum-colo<br />

fruticosus -a -um of shrub like habit, frutex, fruticis<br />

fruticulosus -a -um dwarf-shrubby, diminutive of fruticosus<br />

fucatus -a -um blushing, dyed, artificial-looking, fuco, fucare, fucavi, fucatum<br />

fucescens turning red, blushing, fuco, fucare, fucavi, fucatum<br />

Fuchsia, fuchsii for Leonhard Fuchs (1501–66), Professor at Tübingen and renaissance<br />

botanist<br />

fuchsiaefolius -a -um with Fuchsia-like leaves, Fuchsia-folium<br />

fuchsioides resembling Fuchsia, Fuchsia-oides<br />

fuci- artificial, dyed (red), deceitful; drone, bee-glue, fucus, fuci<br />

fucifer -era -erum drone-bearing, bee-glue bearing, rouge-bearing, fucus-fero<br />

fuciflorus -a -um drone-flowered, fucus-florum (superficial resemblance of the<br />

flower to a drone bee)<br />

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