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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Names</strong> of <strong>Plants</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>sium a name in Pliny for a bulbous plant (root parasites)<br />
<strong>The</strong>spesia Divine, qespesioj (commonly cultured round temples)<br />
thessalicus -a -um, thessalus -a -um from <strong>The</strong>ssaly (<strong>The</strong>ssalía), N Greece<br />
thessalonicus -a -um from <strong>The</strong>ssaloniki (<strong>The</strong>ssalonica), Greece<br />
<strong>The</strong>vetia for Andre Thévet (1502–92), French traveller in Brazil and Guiana<br />
thianschanicus -a -um, thianshanicus -a -um from Tien Shan (Tian Shan), central Asia<br />
Thibaudia for J. M. B. Thibault de Chanvalon (1725–88), Secretary of the Linnean<br />
Society of Paris<br />
thibetanus -a -um, thibeticus -a -um from Tibet (see tibetanus)<br />
thigmo- touch-, qigma, qigganw, qigmothinicolus<br />
-a -um shifting-sand-dwelling, qinoj-colo<br />
thino- dune-, sand-, strand-, qij, qinoj, qinothinophilus<br />
-a -um sand-dune-loving, qino-filoj<br />
Thinopyrum Strand-wheat, qino-puroj<br />
thirsi- contracted-panicle-, qursoj (see Fig. 3)<br />
thirsiflorus -a -um with flowers in thyrses, thyrsoid, botanical Latin from qursoj<br />
and florum<br />
Thistletonia, thistletonii, Thiseltonia, thiseltonii for Sir William Turner Thiselton-<br />
Dyer (1843–1928), Director of Kew (1885–1905)<br />
Thladiantha Eunuch-flower, qladiaj-anqoj (female flowers have aborted<br />
stamens)<br />
Thlaspi the name, qlaspij, used by Hippocrates for cress with seeds which, when<br />
crushed, qlaw, were used as a condiment<br />
tholiformis -is -e rotunda-like, vaulted, domed, qoloj, tholus<br />
Thomasia, thomasii for either Pierre Thomas and his son Abraham Thomas<br />
(1788–1859), collectors of Swiss plants, or Graham Stuart Thomas OBE<br />
(1909–2003), plantsman and writer on roses, or Dr David John Thomas (1813–71),<br />
physician and botanist in New South Wales<br />
Thompsonella for Charles Henry Thompson (1870–1931), American botanist<br />
thomsonae for the wife of Reverend W. C. Thomson in Old Calabar, W Africa<br />
(Clerodendron thomsonae)<br />
Thomsonia for Anthony Todd Thomson (1778–1849), professor at University<br />
College London<br />
thomsonianus -a -um, thomsonii for either Anthony Todd Thomson (1778–1849),<br />
professor at University College London, or Thomas Thomson (1817–78),<br />
Superintendent of Calcutta Botanic Garden and contributor to Hooker’s Flora of<br />
India, or George Thomson (1819–78), Missionary in W Africa, or Joseph T.<br />
Thomson (1858–95), French naval officer and writer on W African orchids<br />
Thonningia for Peter Thonning (1775–1848), Danish doctor on the 1799–1803 W<br />
African expedition<br />
thora etymology uncertain; of corruption, of death, fqora (a medieval name for a<br />
poisonous buttercup)<br />
Thouinia, Thouinidium for André Thouin (1747–1824), French botanist, Curator of<br />
the Jardin des Plantes, Paris<br />
thracicus -a -um from the ancient region of Thrace (Thracia), modern Balkans<br />
thrasi-, thrasy- enduring-, stout-, bold-, qarsoj, qrasoj, qrasu-<br />
Thrasia Bold, qarsoj, qrasoj<br />
Thrasyopsis Resembling-Thrasia, qrasia-oyij<br />
thrausto- brittle, qraustoj<br />
Thrinax, -thrinax Fan, qrinac (the flabellate leaves of fan palms)<br />
Thrincia Capping, qrigkoj (the toothed scales of the outer pappus of Leontodon)<br />
thripticos effeminate, qruptixoj<br />
-thrix -hair, -haired, qric, trixoj, trixh<br />
Thrixospermum Hair-seeded, qric-sperma (distinctive seed morphology)<br />
Thryallis the name used by <strong>The</strong>ophrastus for Verbascum<br />
Thryptomene Feeble-courage, qruptw-menoj (the lowly nature of the first species<br />
described)<br />
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