The Names of Plants

The Names of Plants byssitectus -a -um with a covering like fine linen, botanical Latin from bussinoj and tectum byzantinus -a -um, byzantius -a -um from Istanbul (Byzantium, Constantinople), Turkish cabbage from the medieval French name, caboche, for a head cabardensis -is -e from Cabar, Croatia Cabomba from a Guyanese vernacular name for Cabomba aquatica (Cabombaceae) cabralensis -is -e from the Brazilian mountain chain named for Pedro Alvares Cabral (1467–1520), Portuguese navigator cabrerensis -is -e from the environs of Cabrera, Dominican Republic, or for Jeronimo Luis de Cabrera, who founded Argentina’s second largest city, Cordoba, or for several other persons bearing the name Cabrera cabulicus -a -um from Kabul, Afghanistan cabuya a W Indian vernacular name for a Mauritius hemp-like fibre cac-, caco- bad-, dying or drying, kak-, kako-, kaxCacalia Very-hurtful, kako-lian (name used by Dioscorides) cacaliifolius -a -um with leaves resembling those of Cacalia, Cacalia-folium cacao Aztec name, kakahuatl, for the cacao tree, Theobroma cacao (cognate with the Nahuatl vernacular, xocoatl, cocoa and chocolate) cacaponensis -is -e from the valley of the Cacapon river (confluent with the Potomac river), western Virginia, USA cacatuus -a -um brightly coloured, botanical Latin from Malayan, kakatua Caccinia for Mateo Caccini, seventeenth-century plant introducer of Florence cacharensis -is -e from the Cachar administrative district of Assam cachemerianus -a -um, cachemiricus -a -um from Kashmir, W Himalaya (Cachemere) cachinalensis -is -e from Cachinal, N Chile Cachrys Parched barley, kaxruj, or Pine-cone-like, cachrys (the appearance of the fruit) cachyridifolius -a -um having strobilar-looking leaves, cachrys-folius cacomorphus -a -um of bad form, ugly-looking, kako-morfh cacti- cactus-like- (originally the Greek kaktoj was an Old World spiny plant, not one of the Cactaceae) cacticolus -a -um living with or on cacti, Cactus-colo cactiformis -is -e succulent, cactus-like, Cactus-forma Cactus Linnaeus’ name, Cactus, derived from the former Melocactus (melon thistle) (Cactaceae) cacumenus -a -um, cacuminis -is -e of the point, of the mountain top, cacumen, cacuminis Cadia from the Arabic vernacular name, kadi cadmeus -a -um for Cadmus, or from the area he established at Thebes (Cadmea) cadmicus -a -um with a metallic appearance, cadmia caduci- falling-, abscising-, caducus caducifolius -a -um having leaves that fall early, caduceus-leaved, caducus-folium caducus -a -um transient, not persisting, caducous, caducus cadens tumbling, cascading, becoming pendulous, cado, cadere, cecidi, casum caeciliae for Cecil J. Brooks (1875–c. 1953) who collected plants in Borneo caecus -a -um blind, obscure, uncertain, dead-ended, (intestinus-)caecus caelestis -is -e celestial blue, caelestis caeno-, caenos- new, unheard of, strange, fresh-, recent-, kainoj, kainocaenosus -a -um muddy, growing on mud, caenum caeruleatus -a -um blued, made blue, blue-tinged, caeruleus caeruleoracemosa having racemes of sky-blue flowers, caeruleus-racemosus caerulescens turning blue, conspicuously blue, caeruleus-esse caeruleus -a -um dark sky-blue, dark sea-green, dusky, caeruleus 82