Elsevier S Dictionary Of Plant Names Of North America Including Mexico
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Elsevier S Dictionary Of Plant Names Of North America Including Mexico
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language : en
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Release Date : 2003-07
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Plant Names Of North America Including Mexico written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07 with Education categories.
The border between the United States of America and Mexico is the busiest in the world. This area is also the meeting place of the two great cultures of the Western Hemisphere, Spanish-speaking Latin America and English-speaking North America. Recent demographic migrations coupled with increasing globalization have necessitated closer cooperation and communication between these groups. The area of communication of this dictionary centers around the vernacular or common names of plants. Many recent immigrants from Mexico and further south have gained employment in areas of agriculture, landscaping, and commercial plant nurseries. The new residents also bring with them a rich history of herbal medicines that are becoming increasingly popular in the United States. Both groups share interests in each other's cuisines with respect to food plants and spices. This dictionary contains the Latin, English, and Spanish names for over 7,000 species of the most important plants found mainly in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Included are native and naturalized plants as well as plants of economic value. The main section of the book is organized alphabetically by the scientific Latin genus and species of each plant. The book is also fully indexed by common names primarily in American-English and Mexican-Spanish.
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Plant Names
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Author : Murray Wrobel
language : de
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Release Date : 1996-05-20
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Plant Names written by Murray Wrobel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-05-20 with Education categories.
This comprehensive overview of plant names includes over 12,500 terms covering 298 families, 2,787 genera and 9,427 species which are listed in the alphabetical order of their botanical names. In addition, 2,109 of the more common synonyms are given and referred to their current, preferred names. The presentation of the common names in the four languages of this dictionary is unusual in that as many as twelve names in one language are given. There are more than 17,250 English names including over 3,000 North American and 775 from Australia and New Zealand, whilst the nearly 400 Québecois and a sprinkling of West African and Mauritian names are included among the 13,300 French. More than 13,000 German and 8,600 Italian names are presented. This dictionary will be of value to translators of scientific and general literature; scientific and botanical authors; environmentalists and ecologists; and scientific and lay readers of foreign literature.
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Plant Names And Their Origin
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language : en
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Release Date : 2000-07-19
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Plant Names And Their Origin written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-19 with Nature categories.
The dictionary contains about 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants (plus a few American), both wild and cultivated, with their botanical name and a brief account of the names' meaning if known. It was conceived as part of the author's wider interest in plant and tree lore, and ethnobotanical studies. Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. Why for example is, or was, the common red poppy known as "Blind Man"? An old superstition has it that if the poppy were put to the eyes it would cause blindness. Such names were probably the result of some taboo against picking the plant. Similarly, other names were likely to have been applied as a result of a country mother's warning to her children against eating poisonous berries. For the warning carries more weight when the name given to the berry reinforces the warning. Many such plants or fruits may be ascribed to the devil, Devil's Berries for Deadly Nightshade is an example. Names may also be purely descriptive, and can also serve to explain the meaning of the botanical name. Beauty-Berry is an example: it is the name given to the American shrub that belongs to the genus Callicarpa, which is made up of two Greek words that mean beauty and berry. Literary, or "book" names, have also been included in this dictionary, as being a very important part of the whole. Many of them provide links in the transmission of words through the ages. Thor's Beard, for example, is a book name for "houseleek", and has never been used in the dialect. But it highlights the legend that houseleek is a lightning plant, and by reverse logic is a preserver from fire.
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Trees
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Author : M.M. Grandtner
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2005-04-08
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Trees written by M.M. Grandtner and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-08 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This dictionary will present all currently accepted generic, specific, sub-specific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and more recently extinct taxa, hybrids and cultivars. Only the indigenous trees of a continent, those wild species that were natural elements of the spontaneous forest vegetation before the arrival of Europeans or other colonizers, are included. Each generic entry includes the family to which it is assigned, the synonyms of the Latin name, and the English, French, Spanish, trade and other names. For the English and French names the standard name is listed first, followed by other available names with, in parentheses, the countries where they are used. Where appropriate, names in additional languages are also included. Each infrageneric (species, subspecies, variety) entry includes, in addition, the distribution, height, type of foliage, ecological characteristics and main uses of the tree when available. In this volume only taxa indigenous on the North American continent are included, considered in a geographical, not in a political sense. This means from Alaska and Greenland to Panama, including Caribbean, but excluding Hawaii.
Dictionary Of Plant Lore
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Author : D.C. Watts
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2007-05-02
Dictionary Of Plant Lore written by D.C. Watts and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-02 with Science categories.
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
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Trees
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Author : M.M. Grandtner
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Release Date : 2005-06-06
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Trees written by M.M. Grandtner and has been published by Elsevier Science this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-06 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This dictionary will present all currently accepted generic, specific, sub-specific and variety names of trees, excluding fossil and more recently extinct taxa, hybrids and cultivars. Only the indigenous trees of a continent, those wild species that were natural elements of the spontaneous forest vegetation before the arrival of Europeans or other colonizers, are included. Each generic entry includes the family to which it is assigned, the synonyms of the Latin name, and the English, French, Spanish, trade and other names. For the English and French names the standard name is listed first, followed by other available names with, in parentheses, the countries where they are used. Where appropriate, names in additional languages are also included. Each infrageneric (species, subspecies, variety) entry includes, in addition, the distribution, height, type of foliage, ecological characteristics and main uses of the tree when available. In this volume only taxa indigenous on the North American continent are included, considered in a geographical, not in a political sense. This means from Alaska and Greenland to Panama, including Caribbean, but excluding Hawaii.
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Botany
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language : un
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Release Date : 1984
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Botany written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Botany
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language : de
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Release Date : 1979
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Botany written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Botany categories.
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Wild And Cultivated Plants In Latin English French Spanish Italian Dutch And German
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Author : W. E. Clason
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Company
Release Date : 1989
Elsevier S Dictionary Of Wild And Cultivated Plants In Latin English French Spanish Italian Dutch And German written by W. E. Clason and has been published by Elsevier Science Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Botany categories.
Hardbound. Listed in this multilingual dictionary are the scientific names of wild and cultivated plants found in Europe. As the scientific names are most widely used internationally in the field of botany, these are given first with their vernacular names in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and German.The dictionary has been compiled with particular attention given to the wide and varied floras found in Italy and Great Britain, as these provide a solid representation of the flora of temperate and alpine zones. Additional names have been added when encountered, but rare plants have not been listed. A literal translation of the scientific name has been given in the cases where a name of a plant in a particular language - especially Spanish - did not seem to exist, or could not be found in the consulted sources. The user will find this dictionary of considerable value as an aid to translation work.
Crc World Dictionary Of Plant Names
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Author : Umberto Quattrocchi
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1999-11-17
Crc World Dictionary Of Plant Names written by Umberto Quattrocchi and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-17 with Science categories.
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.