A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

cervinus,-a,-um (adj.A): cervine, cervinous = rangiferinus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.; = elaphinus,-a,-um (adj.A):

NOTE: not cervicinus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.: of or pertaining to a cervix or neck.

1. of or pertaining to deer, “belonging to or resembling deer” (WIII) = rangiferinus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v..

2. (of color) cervine, dark-tawny (the color of a deer); “tawny, deer-colored” (Paxton); “deep tawny, such as the dark part of a lion’s hide” (Lindley); (fungi) “(of color) fawn-colored (R XL; MP 14 A 7)” (S&D);

- elaphinus,-a,-um (adj.A): “same as ‘cervine’ (S&D), dark-tawny (the color of a deer).

- [fungus] pilei color variabilis, perquam difficilis descriptu, nunc e rubello fulvescens, nunc ex alutaceo aut subcervino purpurascens (S&A), the color of the pileus variable, extremely difficult to describe, sometimes reddish to fulvescent [i.e. blackish-brown], sometimes from leather-colored [i.e. pale brown] or somewhat tawny [i.e. deer-colored] to purplish.

- [Cladonia rangiferina; lichen] in regionibus maxime arcticis forma (cervina) squamis crassioribus cervinis vel cervino-hepaticis (Nyl.), in the most arctic regions forma (cervina) with thicker scales, cervinous [i.e. tawny, deer-colored] or tawny-liver-brown [i.e. liver-colored, dark reddish-brown.

- [lichen] podetia crassitiei 2-4 millim. basin versus pallide cervina, apice stramineo-pallida (Nyl. 2), with the podetia 2-4 mm in thickness, toward the base pale cervine [i.e. tawny-colored], at the apex pale straw-colored.

- [fungus] pileo umbonato hemisphaerico-plano e cervino olivascente squamulis subsquarrosis obscurioribus hirto, cortina subannulata (S&A), with an umbonate hemispheric pileus to flat, from tawny- [i.e. deer-] colored to olivascent, hirtous with more obscure nearly square little scales, with the cortina nearly annulate.

- [fungus] pilei color variabilis, perquam difficilis descriptu, nunc e rubello fulvescens, nunc ex alutaceo aut subcervino purpurascens (S&A), the color of the pileus variable, extremely difficult to describe, sometimes reddish to fulvescent [i.e. yellowish-brown], sometimes from leather-colored [i.e. pale brown] or somewhat tawny [i.e. deer-colored] to purplish.

- pileus in a, saepe dilute cervinus (S&A), the pileus in [var.] a, often a pale dark-tawny [i.e. deer-colored].

Pluteus cervinus, a mushroom with a dark to drab brown cap.

3. with complex branching like a reindeer's horn; (fungi) “(of cystidia, etc.) horned, pronged” (S&D); [> L. cervus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. cervo: a stag], a deer]; elaphinus,-a,-um (adj.A) = cervine (in color); see antlered.

NOTE: the shape suggested by ‘coralloides,-es (adj.B),’ q.v., is also suggestive of branched antlers, i.e. rangiferinus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v. or cervinus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v., i.e. with complex branching like a reindeer's horn;

- [Sphaerophoron coralloides; lichen] habitu ramificationis omnino sicut in Cladonia rangiferina (Nyl.), with the manner of branching completely as in Cladonia rangiferina.

- [MUSCI EXOTICI INCOGNITI, exotic unknown ‘mosses’] 4. Muscus capillaceus & sericeus Americanus nigri cans Tourn. 7. R. H. p.y y2. Plum.Cat. p. 1 6. Non Muscum, sed junius folium cujusdam Linguæ cervinæ Americanæ esse existimat Vaillantius in Observationibus quibusdam Manuscr. (Dill.)), a capillaceus and silky blackish American ‘Muscus.’ Not a Muscus but Vaillantius, in certain observations [in his manuscript] thought it to be a younger leaf of a certain American Hart’s Tongue.

“Lingua cervina, Phyllitis, Harts-tongue” (Ray).

Apocynum cervinum ; Erigeron cervinus; Eugenia cervina, Ficus cervina; Haplopappus cervinus; Liabellum cervinum; Lotus cervinus; Preslia cervina

[lichen] Lecanora cervina

Polybotrya cervina (Polypodiaceae)