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  2. List of descriptive plant species epithets (I–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Epithets from proper nouns, proper adjectives, and two or more nouns are excluded, along with epithets used only in species names that are no longer widely accepted. Classical and modern meanings are provided in the third column, along with citations to Charlton T. Lewis's An Elementary Latin Dictionary. [7] [a]

  3. List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H) - Wikipedia

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    Epithets from proper nouns, proper adjectives, and two or more nouns are excluded, along with epithets used only in species names that are no longer widely accepted. Classical and modern meanings are provided in the third column, along with citations to Charlton T. Lewis's An Elementary Latin Dictionary. [7] [a]

  4. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Arranged on a conical surface (like a snail shell); used to describe inflorescence s in which the bud s are arranged in an almost helical manner on the outside of a long, tapering, conical rachis. bract A modified leaf associated with a flower or inflorescence and differing in shape, size, or color from other leaves (and without an axillary bud ...

  5. Sativum - Wikipedia

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    Lepidium sativum, garden cress. Madia sativa, Chilean tarweed. Medicago sativa, alfalfa. Nigella sativa, a flower whose edible seeds are sometimes known as "black cumin" or "black caraway". Oryza sativa, rice. Pastinaca sativa., parsnip, a root vegetable closely related to the carrot and parsley; all belong to the family Apiaceae. Pisum sativum ...

  6. Botanical garden - Wikipedia

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    The botanical garden of Quito is a park, a botanical garden, an arboretum and greenhouses of 18,600 square meters that is planned to increase, maintain the plants of the country (Ecuador is among the 17 richest countries in the world in the native species, a study on this matter).

  7. Epithet - Wikipedia

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    An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional'), [1] also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing.

  8. ‘Brain Rot’ is Oxford’s Word of the Year - AOL

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    Credit - Denis Novikov—iStock/Getty Images. I f you’ve been scrolling too long on social media, you might be suffering from “brain rot,” the word of 2024, per the publisher of the Oxford ...

  9. Herb - Wikipedia

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    Herb garden at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, England, originally planted in the 1870s by Lady Louisa Egerton, recreated by the National Trust, largely following the original design. In botany , the term herb refers to a herbaceous plant , [ 6 ] defined as a small, seed-bearing plant without a woody stem in which all aerial parts (i.e. above ground ...