The Names of Plants

The Names of Plants navus -a -um energetic, vigorous, gnavus, navus nayaritensis -is -e from Nayarit state, W central Mexico Neanthe derivation unclear ( Chamaedorea elegans) neapolitanus -a -um from Naples, Italy (Neapolis) nebrodensis -is -e from Mount Nebrodi, Sicily nebularis -is -e clouded, nebula, nebulae (the colour and blooming of clouded agaric) nebulicolus -a -um growing at altitude, cloud-dwelling, nebula-colo nebulosus -a -um cloud-like, clouded, vaporous, nebulous, nebula, nebulae necopinus -a -um surprising, unexpected, necopinus necro- dead-, decayed-, nekroj, nekro necrophagus -a -um saprophytic, eating dead matter, nekro-fagw nectar- nectar-, honey-, nektar, nektaroj nectariferus -a -um bearing nectar, nektaroj-ferw Nectaroscordum Nectar-garlic, nektaroj-skorodon Nectria Honey, nektar (the mass of yellow, drop-like fruiting bodies) neerlandicus -a -um from the Netherlands negevensis -is -e from the Negev (Ha-Negev, Hebrew, ngb) desert area, Israel neglectus -a -um (formerly) overlooked, disregarded, neglected, neglegio, neglegere, neglexi, neglectum negrosensis -is -e from Negros Island, central Philippines Negundo, negundo from a Sanskrit name, nirgundi, for a tree with leaves like boxelder neilgherrensis -is -e from the Nilgiri hills, Tamil Nadu, S India Neillia for Patrick Neill (1776–1851), Edinburgh botanist nelsonii for either Reverend John Nelson (1818–82), who grew narcissi, or William Nelson (1852–1922) of Natal (Albuca nelsonii) nelumbifolius -a -um with Nelumbo-like leaves, Nelumbo-folium Nelumbo (Nelumbium), nelumbo from a Singhalese vernacular name, nelumbi, for water-bean (Nelumbonaceae) -nema, nema-, nemato- -thread, thread-, thread-like-, nhma, nhmato Nemastylys Thread-styled-one, nhma-stuloj Nematanthus Thread-flower, nhmato-anqoj (thread-like pedicels of N. longipes) nematocaulon with a slender stalk. nhmato-kauloj Nemesia a name, nemesion, used by Dioscorides for another plant nemo- of clearings-, of glades-, glade-, nemoj, nemo-, knemoj Nemocharis Joy-of-the-glades, nemo-(xarij, xaritoj) Nemopanthus (Nemopanthes) Thread-flower, nhma-anqoj (the slender pedicels) Nemophila, nemophilus -a -um Glade-loving, nemo-filoj (woodland habitat) nemoralis -is -e, nemorosus -a -um, nemorum of woods, sylvan, nemus, nemoris nemorensis -is -e from woodlands, nemus, nemoris nemus -a -um of glades, nemus, nemoris nemusculus medieval Latin for undergrowth or scrub, nemus neo- new-, neoj, neo- (as a generic prefix denoting systematic relationship) neoalaskana new (Betula) alaskana Neobaumannia New-Baumannia Neobenthamia New-Benthamia, for George Bentham (1800–84) Neobesseya New-Besseya, for Charles Bessey neo-britanniae from New Britain, Papua New Guinea, botanical Latin from neoj and Britannia neo-caledoniae from New Caledonia, French territory, SW Pacific Ocean, botanical Latin from neoj and Caledonia neocorymbosus -a -um new (Hieracium) corymbosum Neodypsis New-Dypsis, neo-duyij neoelegans new (Aster) elegans, botanical Latin from neoj and elegans neogaeus -a -um from the New World, neo-(gh, gaia) neo-hibernicus -a -um from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea, botanical Latin from neoj and Hibernia 270