Author: Geoffrey GrigsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A dictionary of English plant names and some products of plants
Author: Geoffrey GrigsonA Dictionary of English Plant-names
Author: James BrittenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plant names, Popular
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners
Author: William Thomas StearnPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304364695
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Stearn's classic dictionary of the meaning and origin of some 6,000 botanical names
A Dictionary of Plant Names
Author: H. L. Gerth van WijkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1742
Book Description
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names
Author: Umberto QuattrocchiPublisher: 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 Plant Lore
Author: D.C. WattsPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 9780080546025
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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
Pronouncing Dictionary of Plant Names
Author: Planting the Seeds of Knowledge: An Inventory of Old English Plant Names
Author: Hans SauerPublisher: Herbert Utz Verlag
ISBN: 3831647437
Category : English language
Languages : de
Pages : 444
Book Description
Old English had a large number of plant names: more than a thousand are attested. These are listed here, including parts of plants and products of plants. In the main list the following kinds of information are provided: the spelling (including spelling variants), the literal meaning, the etymology (native word or loan-word) and word-formation, equivalents in Modern English, in the Linnéan terminology, and in German, as well as the older Latin names. Cross-references to etymologically or semantically related names are also given. It is furthermore noted if the etymology or the identification of the plant is unclear. The main list is made more accessible and is supplemented by several indices and supplementary lists; these collect, for example, those Old English plant names that survive in Modern English, Old English names for fruits and products of plants, tree names, the Latin names according to the Linnéan system, the Modern English equivalents, and the Modern German equivalents.
Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names
Author: Urs EggliPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662071258
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Names are important elements to handle the diversity of items in daily life - persons, objects, animals, plants, etc. Without such names, it would be difficult to attach information to such items and to communicate information about them, and names are usually used without giving them much thought. This is not different for plants. When dealing with plants, however, it soon becomes apparent that the situation is somewhat more complex. Botanists use Latin names to bring order into the vast diversity, while everyday usage resorts to vemacular or "popular" names. As practical as these vernacular names are (it is not suggested that you should ask your greengrocer for a kilo gram of Solanum tuberosum or Musa paradisiaca subsp. sapientum), their most important draw back is the fact that they vary widely, not only from one language to another but also from coun try to country, even from region to region within a large country. More importantly, vemacular names in any given language are usually only available for the plants growing locally, or for plants of some special importance, such as crops and vegetables, medicinal plants, or important garden plants. For all other plants, the Latin names used by botanists and other scientists have to be employed. Such names often appear complicated or even awkward to the ears of those not accustomed to them.
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