Author: Sudhir Chandra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names: Ba-Bl
Author: Sudhir Chandra
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 974
Book Description
Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names: Hauckia to Hessea (including index to v. 11)
Author: Sudhir Chandra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788121109109
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788121109109
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849326752
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from A to C.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849326752
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from A to C.
Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names
Author: Sudhir Chandra
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher: James Currey
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
A Dictionary of Plant Names
Author: H. L. Gerth van Wijk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names
Author: Sudhir Chandra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789394991507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789394991507
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Dictionary of English Plant-names
Author: James Britten
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Nmaes
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849326776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780849326776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from M to Q.
Dictionary of Commemorative Plant Generic Names
Author: Sudhir Chandra
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789394991309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789394991309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dictionary of Plant Lore
Author: D.C. Watts
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080546021
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Many plant names derived from superstition, folk lore, or primal beliefs. Other names are purely descriptive and can serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. For example, Beauty-Berry is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa. Callicarpa is Greek for beautiful fruit. Still other names come from literary sources providing rich detail of the transmission of words through the ages.Conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies, this fully revised edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origins contains over 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants. Wild and cultivated plants alike are identified by the botanical name. Further detail provides a brief account of the meaning of the name and detailed commentary on common usage. * Includes color images * Inclusive of all Latin terms with vernacular derivatives * The most comprehensive guide for plant scientists, linguists, botanists, and historians
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080546021
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious belief that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Many plant names derived from superstition, folk lore, or primal beliefs. Other names are purely descriptive and can serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. For example, Beauty-Berry is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa. Callicarpa is Greek for beautiful fruit. Still other names come from literary sources providing rich detail of the transmission of words through the ages.Conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore and ethnobotanical studies, this fully revised edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origins contains over 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants. Wild and cultivated plants alike are identified by the botanical name. Further detail provides a brief account of the meaning of the name and detailed commentary on common usage. * Includes color images * Inclusive of all Latin terms with vernacular derivatives * The most comprehensive guide for plant scientists, linguists, botanists, and historians