A couple of years back when i was studying Permaculture
there was a book floating around that
explained the Latin meanings
of root words
and
how
the words in Latin were descriptive
of the plant itself.
for example the cashew:
Anacardium occidentale:
* Anacardium (an-uh-KAR-dee-um) - Name used for the heart-shaped fruit of an Indian tree, but applied to the cashew by Linnaeus.
* occidentale (ock-sih-den-TAY-lee) - Of or from the West.
I can't remember the title or author of that particular book. Any suggestions on something similar?
Thanks
there was a book floating around that
explained the Latin meanings
of root words
and
how
the words in Latin were descriptive
of the plant itself.
for example the cashew:
Anacardium occidentale:
* Anacardium (an-uh-KAR-dee-um) - Name used for the heart-shaped fruit of an Indian tree, but applied to the cashew by Linnaeus.
* occidentale (ock-sih-den-TAY-lee) - Of or from the West.
I can't remember the title or author of that particular book. Any suggestions on something similar?
Thanks
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Re: Binomial Nomenclature and Latin Roots
Fri, April 4, 2008 - 1:12 PMWell, given the thousands of species of plants out there I can tell you that this generic form or Latin roots doesn't apply to everything. There is a forum which convenes every once in a while who look at all the new discoveries, verify they are new, consider the name given and change it against the namers will if it is too stupid, such as stinkus skunkisus and other nonsense names which have been created by the discoverers.
Amorphophallus titanum is the name for the Corpse Flower, which resembles a titanic phallus, so the name worked there.
From www.faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/menke.html
* Cuttysarkus Estes, 1964 (a fossil lizard)
* This McAlpine, 1991 (a fly; McAlpine has a poster on his office door with an illustration of the fly and a quote below "Look at This!")
* Ba humbugi Solem, 1976 (a snail from Mba Island, Fiji)
* Colon rectum Hatch, 1933 (a colonid beetle)
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Re: Binomial Nomenclature and Latin Roots
Sat, April 5, 2008 - 2:47 AMAre you thinking of Linnaeus' Taxonomy? That's a huge tome, though.
Good luck.
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