A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

echinaceus,-a,-um (adj.A): spiny, bristly, armed with numerous rigid hairs or straight prickles or spines; resembling the sea-urchin (echinus,-i (s.m.II); and also the land-urchin (hedghog) (erinaceus,-i (s.m.II) [> L. echinus,-i (s.m.II), q.v.]; see bristly; see hedgehog-like.

NOTE: not to be confused with erinaceus,-i (s.m.II), q.v., which is a noun.

Echinacea,-ae (s.f.I), > Gk. echinos, a hedgehog: “from the sharp-pointed pales” (Fernald 1950); “in allusion to the prickly scales of the receptacle. Compositae (Stearn 1996).

Berkheya echinacea; Crocodilodes echinaceum; Cucumis echinaceus; Eriocaulon echinaceum; Montanoa echinacea; Opuntia echinacea; Tephrocactus echinaceus.

A work in progress, presently with preliminary A through R, and S, and with S (in part) through Z essentially completed.
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