The Names Of Plants.pdf
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Glossary<br />
Punica from a name, malum punicum, Carthaginian apple; in Pliny, malum granatum,<br />
many-seeded apple, gave the old French, pume grenate, and our pomegranate<br />
(Punicaceae)<br />
puniceus -a -um crimson, carmine-red, pomegranate-coloured, puniceus<br />
punici- pomegranate-like, Punicapunicus<br />
-a -um from Tunisia, Phoenician, (foenikej); pomegranate, reddish-purple<br />
punjabensis -is -e from the Punjab area of NW India and E Pakistan<br />
puralbus -a -um plain- or pure-white, purus-albus<br />
purdomii for William Purdom (1880–1921), collected for Veitch in China with<br />
Farrer<br />
purdyi for Carl Purdy (1861–1945), student of the California flora<br />
purgans purging, cleansing, present participle of purgo, purgare, purgavi, purgatum<br />
purgus -a -um purgative (the officinal root, purga de Jalapa, of Ipomoea purga)<br />
purpurascens, purpurescens becoming purple, purpureus-essentia<br />
purpuratus -a -um empurpled, purplish, purpureus<br />
purpureifolius -a -um purple-leaved, purpureus-folium<br />
purpurellus -a -um somewhat empurpled, diminutive of purpureus<br />
purpureoauratus -a -um purple and golden coloured, purpureus-aureus<br />
purpureo-badius -a -um purple and reddish-brown, purpureus-badius<br />
purpureobracteatus -a -um with purple bracts, purpureus-brattea<br />
purpureocaeruleus -a -um purple and blue coloured, purpureus-caeruleus<br />
purpureo-maculatus -a -um having purple spots, purpureus-macula<br />
purpureopilosus -a -um having a purple indumentum, purpureus-pilosus<br />
purpureospathus -a -um with purple spathes, purpureus-spatha<br />
purpureosplendes glowing purple, present participle from purpureus-(splendeo,<br />
splendere)<br />
purpureus -a -um reddish-purple, purpureus<br />
purpurinus -a -um somewhat purplish, diminutive of purpureus<br />
purpusii for either of the brothers J. A. and C. A. Purpus of Darmstadt<br />
Purshia, purshianus -a -um for Frederick Traugott Pursh (Pursch) (1774–1820),<br />
author of Flora Americae septentrionalis (Rhamnus purshiana yields cascara sagrada)<br />
purus -a -um clear, spotless, pure, chaste, unadorned, purus<br />
-pus -foot, pouj, podoj<br />
Puschkinia for Count Graffen Apollos Apollosovitsch Mussin-Puschkin (d. 1805),<br />
Russian phytochemist and plant collector in the Caucasus<br />
pusilliflorus -a -um having very small flowers, pussilus-florum<br />
pusillus -a -um weak, insignificant, minute, very small, slender, pusillus<br />
pustulatus -a -um as though covered with blisters or pimples, pustula, pustulae<br />
pustulosus -a -um pustuled, pimpled, pustula, pustulae<br />
putatus -a -um, puteolatus -a -um pitted, puteus, putei<br />
puteanus -a -um of rot, puter, putris (Coniophora is a wet-rot fungus and its fruiting<br />
body is rough with pits, puteus, putei)<br />
putens foetid, stinking, present participle of puteo, putere<br />
puteorum of the pits, puteus, putei<br />
Putoria Stinker, puteo, putere to stink<br />
putumayensis -is -e, putumayo from Putumayo department, S Colombia<br />
putus -a -um entirely pure, putus<br />
Puya from the Chilean vernacular name<br />
pycn-, pycno- close-, densely-, compact-, dense-, puknoj, pukno-, puknpycnacanthus<br />
-a -um having dense spines or thorns, puknoj-akanqoj<br />
Pycnanthemum Densely-flowered, pukn-anqemoj<br />
Pycnanthus, pycnanthus -a -um Densely-flowered, pukn-anqoj<br />
Pycnobotrya Dense-bunched, puknoj-botruj<br />
pycnocephalus -a -um with a dense head, pukno-kefalh (of flowers)<br />
pycnophyllus -a -um with densely arranged leaves, pukno-fullon<br />
Pycnoplinthopsis Resembling-compact-Plinthus, pukno-plinqoj-oyij (Plinthus is a<br />
Cape coast Aizoaceaen genus)<br />
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