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Botanic Plant Names - translations/meanings Part 2 - Edible Foraging
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- 1SymphytumGENUS
Growing together - 2PlantagoGENUS
Foot print, sole of foot
Plantain - 3lanceolataLance-shaped
- 4majorlarger
- 5LamiumGENUS
Latin name for a dead-nettle plant - 6albumwhite
- 7purpureumpurple
- 8UrticaGENUS
stinging - 9dioicaMale and female flowers on separate plants
- 10ChenopodiumGENUS
From the Greek chen (goose) and podion (little foot); Goosefoot leaf shapes. - 11bonusgood
- 12henricusHenry
- 13MelissaGENUS
From the Greek for honey bee - 14OriganumGENUS
Mountain joy - 15vulgarecommon
- 16SalviaGENUS
Referring to helping, saving, healing - 17ThymusGENUS
From the Greek word for smoke, fumigate - 18praecoxPremature (early) flowering
- 19MenthaGENUS
Latin name of a Greek nymph who was turned into a mint, (very old name) - 20aquaticaLives in water
- 21arvensisOf farmed or cultivated land
- 22GlechomaGENUS
From the Greek glechon, (pennyroyal, a kind of mint) - 23hederaceaPertaining to ivy
- 24GaliumGENUS
From the Greek gala, milk; referring to certain species used to curdle milk - 25aparineGreek name for the plant called cleavers (due to its hooked bristles)
- 26patulaspreading
- 27OxalisGENUS
Sour, referring to oxalic acid in leaves and roots - 28acetosellasour - Pre-Linnaean name for common sorrel & other plants with acid leaves
- 29RosaGENUS
Rose - 30caninapertaining to dogs
- 31UmbilicusGENUS
Like a navel - 32rupestrisreferring to rocks
- 33LythrumGENUS
From the Greek word for blood in a gory sense, from wounds etc - 34portula? carries ?
- 35MyrrhisGENUS
From the Greek for perfume - 36odorataodorous, fragrant
- 37RosmarinusGENUS
Dew of the sea ?? - 38AloysiaGENUS
Named in honor of Maria Louisa Teresa, 18th-century princess of Parma and wife of King Carlos IV of Spain - 39triphyllathree leaves
- 40TanacetumGENUS
Immortality - 41partheniumAn old name for several plants, possibly from 'virgin' due to the idea they could treat some feminine problems
- 42SaponariaGENUS
soapy
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