The Names of Plants

The Names of Plants Astrantia Masterwort (l’Ecluse’s name, from magistrantia, Meisterwürz) astrantioideus -a -um resembling Astrantia astrictus -a -um drawn together, adstringo, adstringere, adstrinxi, adstrictum astringens contracting, becoming drawn in, present participle of adstringo Astripomoea Star-Ipomoea, asthr-iy-omoioj astro- star-shaped-, astrum, astron, astroAstrocarpus Star-fruit, astro-karpoj astroites star-like, astron-itikoj Astronium Star-like, astron (the flowers) astrophoros star-bearing, aster-foroj Astrophytum Star-plant, astro-futon (the morphology of the plant) astrotrichus -a -um having star-shaped hairs, stellate-hairy, astro-trixoj -astrum somewhat like, wild, inferior, as good as, ad instar asturicus -a -um, asturiensis -is -e from Asturias, NW Spain astutus -a -um cunning, deceptive, astutus astylus -a -um lacking a distinct style, a-stuloj asymmetricus -a -um irregular, lacking symmetry, a-sum-metrioj Asyneuma derivation uncertain (?a-sun-eu-ma, relationship to Phyteuma) Asystasia derivation uncertain, a-sustasij, lacking association atacamicus -a -um from the Atacama desert of Chile Ataenidia Without-a-small-band, a-tainia (no spur on the staminode) Atalantia for Atalanta, the swift-footed huntress of Greek mythology atalantoides resembling Atalantia, Atalantia-oides atamasco an Amerindian vernacular name for Zephyranthes atamasco atavus -a -um great-great-great-grandfather, of great age, ancient, atavus, atavi ataxacanthus -a -um having irregularly arranged prickles, ataktoj-akanqa ater, atra, atrum matt-black, ater, atris Athamanta Athamas-one, athamanticus -a -um (athemanticus), of Mount Athamas, Sicily, or for the King Athamas of the Minyans, in mythology Athanasia Immortal, a-qanasimoj (without death, funerary use of Tanacetum) atheniensis -is -e from Athens (Athenae) athero- bristle-, beard-, aqhr, aqeroj atherodes bristle-eared, (aqhr, aqeroj)-wdhj Atherosperma Bearded-seed, aqhro-sperma athois -is -e, athous -a -um from Mount Athos, NE Greece athro- crowded, aqrooj, aqroathrostachyus -a -um having crowded spikes, aqro-staxuj Athrotaxis Crowded-order, aqrooj-tacij Athyrium Sporty, aqurw (sporty in an earlier sense of variability, from the varying structure of ladyfern sori) (Athyriaceae) -aticus -a -um,-atilis -is -e -from (a place) atlanticus -a -um of the Atlas Mountains (Atlas, Atlantis), N Africa, of Atlantic areas (the western limits of the classical Old World) atlantis -is -e from the Atlas mountains (Atlas, Atlantis), Morocco/Algeria/Tunisia, N Africa; for the giant Atlas of mythology atomarius -a -um small, pigmy, unmoved, indivisible, atomoj, atomus, atomi atomerius -a -um speckled (atomate); having very small parts, atom-merij Atractogyne Spindle-fruited-one, atraktoj-gunh (fusiform fruits of some) Atractylis Spindles, atraktoj (the long spines of the outer bracts) atractyloides resembling Atractylis, Atractylis-oides atramentarius -a -um with black eruptions, atra-mentagra (sycosis) atramentiferus -a -um carrying a black secretion, atra-mentagra-fero atrandrus -a -um having dark stamens, botanical Latin ater-andrus Atraphaxis an ancient Greek name, atrafacuj, for Atriplex (q.v.) atratus -a -um blackened, clothed in black, blackish, ater atrebatus -a -um swarthy, blackened, from the Celtic Atrebates tribe of Roman England, South of the Thames and in Gaul – famous as ironworkers 60