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Author: A. W. Smith Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486320057 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
First compact dictionary to combine definitions of botanical names in general usage with information on their derivation and guides to pronunciation. A monumental index provides a cross-reference from some 1,800 common plant names to corresponding botanical ones. Combines thoroughness, botanical rigor, and interesting facts and lore — all leavened with touches of humor.
Author: A. W. Smith Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486320057 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 450
Book Description
First compact dictionary to combine definitions of botanical names in general usage with information on their derivation and guides to pronunciation. A monumental index provides a cross-reference from some 1,800 common plant names to corresponding botanical ones. Combines thoroughness, botanical rigor, and interesting facts and lore — all leavened with touches of humor.
Author: Dinkarrao Amrutrao Patil Publisher: Daya Books ISBN: 9788170354604 Category : Plants Languages : en Pages : 304
Book Description
India is one of the richest floristic reigion of the world. Its plant wealth is being used since antiquity for various purposes. The plants are referred by their scientific names but usually ignoring their bases and meaning. Origins of Plant Names is a decade-long effort of the author encompassing about 3297 genera, 974 species of Indian territory. It informs about meanings, origins or history of plant names. It includes wild as well as cultivated, indigenous or exotic plants. Single reference book was a long-felt necessity. This book will help satisfy the needy. It will be useful to the students of undergraduate and post-graduate classes, apart from their teachers, researchers workers and enthusiasts studying in Botany, Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and faculties like Ayurveda, Unani etc.
Author: Umberto Quattrocchi Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0849326788 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 647
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 R to Z.
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
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.
Author: Thomas Somerville Lindsay Publisher: ISBN: Category : Botany Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
History and principles of plant naming, Pronunciation,spelling,and gender, Names whose meanings are not known, Medicinal names, Fancy names, Commemorative names, Names from place of origin, Names from use, Classical names, Names from likeness to animals, Names from habitat, Descriptive names, Specific names,
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