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Glossary<br />

hircinus -a -um of goats, smelling of a male goat, hircus, hirci<br />

hirculus from a plant name, diminutive of hircus, in Pliny (a small goat)<br />

Hirschfeldia for Christian Cayus Lorenz Hirschfeld, eighteenth-century Austrian<br />

botanist and horticulturalist of Holstein<br />

hirsutellus -a -um somewhat hairy, with very short hairs, diminutive of hirsutus<br />

hirsutiformis -is -e with a hairy appearance, hirsuti-forma<br />

hirsutipetalus -a -um with hairy petals, hirsuti-petalus<br />

hirsutissimus -a -um very hairy, hairiest, superlative of hirsutus<br />

hirsutulus -a -um, hirtellus -a -um, hirtulus -a -um somewhat hairy (diminutive<br />

suffix)<br />

hirsutus -a -um rough-haired, covered in long hairs, hirsutus<br />

Hirtella Hairy, feminine diminutive of hirtus<br />

hirtellus -a -um somewhat hairy, diminutive of hirtus<br />

hirti- having shaggy hair, hairy-, hirtus<br />

hirticaulis -is -e hairy-stemmed, hirtus-caulis<br />

hirtifolius -a -um having a hairy leaf, hirtus-folium<br />

hirtipes hairy-stemmed, hirtus-pes<br />

hirtovaginatus -a -um hairy-sheathed, hirtus-vagina<br />

hirtulus -a -um weakly hairy, diminutive of hirtus<br />

hirtus -a -um hairy, shaggy-hairy, hirtus<br />

hirundinaceus -a -um, hirundinarius -a -um pertaining to swallows, hirundo, hirundinis<br />

hirundinis -is -e, hirundo swallow-like, hirundo (curved)<br />

hispalensis -is -e from Seville, southern Spain (Hispalis)<br />

hispanicus -a -um from Spain, Spanish, Hispanic (Hispania)<br />

hispaniolicus -a -um from Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Hispaniola<br />

(Española), Greater Antilles, W Indies<br />

hisperides vide hesperides, of the far west (to the Romans, Spain)<br />

hispi-, hispid- bristly-, hispidus<br />

Hispidella Bristly-one, feminine diminutive of hispidus<br />

hispidissimus -a -um the most hispid (of related species), superlative of hispidus<br />

hispidovillosus -a -um having long, rough hairs, hispidus-villosus<br />

hispidulus -a -um slightly bristly, diminutive of hispidus<br />

hispidus -a -um bristly, with stiff hairs, hispidus<br />

histio- sail-, istion, istio- (some derive as mast or web, istoj)<br />

Histiopteris Sail-fern, istio-pteruc (the frond of bat’s-wing fern)<br />

histrio- of varied colouring, theatrical, histrio, histrionis, actor<br />

histrioides resembling (Iris) histrio, Iris histrio-oides<br />

histrionicus -a -um showing off, of actors, of the stage, histrionia, histrioniae<br />

histrix showy, theatrical, histricus of the stage, histrio an actor (see also hystrix)<br />

Hitchcockella for Albert Spear Hitchcock (1865–1935), American botanist of<br />

Missouri botanic garden and USDA, Washington<br />

hittiticus -a -um from the Turkish peninsula; of the Hittites, from the land of the<br />

Hittites, Anatolian (Land of Hatti)<br />

Hodgkinsonia for Clement Hodgkinson, English naturalist of the Crown Lands<br />

Survey, Australia (1861–74)<br />

Hodgsonia, hodgsonii for Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–94), English orientalist,<br />

East India Company resident in Nepal<br />

Hoehnea, Hoehneela, Hoehnophytum for Frederico Carlos Hoehne (1882–1959),<br />

Brazilian botanist, professor at Rio de Janeiro<br />

Hoffmannia, hoffmannianus -a -um for Georg Franz Hoffmann (1761–1826), Professor<br />

of Botany at Göttingen<br />

hoffmannii for Herr Hoffmann, Austrian discoverer of Symphyandra hoffmanni in<br />

Bosnia c. 1880<br />

Hoffmannseggia for Count Johann Centurius Graf von Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849),<br />

German naturalist, founder of the Berlin Zoological Museum<br />

Hofmeisterella for William Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister (1824–77), German<br />

botanist and reproductive cytologist, professor at Heidelberg<br />

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