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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
-glochin,-inis (s.f.III): in Gk. comp., a noun functioning as an adjective in an epithet is declined like the noun it is without reference to the gender of the generic name with which it is associated [> Gk. glochin, gen.sg. glochinis (glochinos), (s.f.III) any projecting point, the point of an arrow]; see glochid;

NOTE: the suffix here usually refers to glochidia; see glochid;

           singular          plural
Nom.    -glochin        -glochines
Gen.    -glochinis      -glochinum
Dat.    -glochini        -glochinibus
Acc.    -glochinem     -glochines
Abl.     -glochine       -glochinibus
NOTE: the following as epithets are nouns in apposition:

argyroglochin,-inis (s.f.III), with silver, white or shining points or glochidia; macroglochin,-inis, with large points or glochidia; microglochin,-inis), with small point, points or glochidia; oligoglochin,-inis, with few glochidia; plioglochin,-inis, with several or few glochidia;

triglochin,-inis, with three points or glochidia; tetraglochin,-inis, with four points or glochidia; hexaglochin,-inis, with six.

Triglochin,-is (s.f.III) “Name composed of the Greek treis, three, and glochis, point, from the three points of the ripe fruit [in T. palustris] when dehiscent” (Fernald 1950).

 

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