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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
bimus,-a,-um (adj.A): two years old, of two years, continuing two years; biennial; “lasting two years” (Lindley) [> L. bimus,-a,-um (adj.A; “(probably contracted from bis-hiems, of two winters) two years old, of two years, continuing two years” (Lewis & Short); cf. biennial, “requiring two years to form its flowers and fruit, and then dying. Growing one year, flowering, fruiting, and dying the next” (Lindley); cf. trimus,-a,-um (adj.A), lasting three years; cf. quadrimus,-a,-um (adj.A), lasting four years;

- Herba annua dicitur, quae eodem anno nata flore fructuque perfectis moritur, ut frumenta. Bima vero, Trimave, quae intra spacium duorum vel trium annorum sua tempora perficit (Tourn.), an herb is called ‘annual,’ which, having been born, dies in the same year, after the the flower and fruit have been perfected, as in grain crops. In fact [an herb is herba] ‘bima’ [i.e. continuing two years], or [herba] ‘trima’ [i.e. continuing three years], that, within the space of two or three years, completes it’s own [i.e. particular] lifetime.

[moss] Bryum bimum Schreb.

 

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