A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin


melius (adv.): better (comparative of bene); see bene (adv.), ‘well;’ see optime (adv.) ‘best;’ - cum typo melius congruit, with the type it agrees better. - venis in margine apicali melius visis, with the veins better seen on the apical margin. - in Cryptonemearum subdivisione favellidia melius [optime] cognita, in the subdivision of Cryptonemeae the favellidia are better [best] known. - sed characteribus permultis Zanthoxylo melius quadrat, but by very many characters it better agrees with Zanthoxylum. - SOULAMEA, Lam., olim inter Polygaleas enumerata, nunc melius nota ad Simarubeas recte refertur (B&H), Soulamea Lam. once numbered among the Polygaleae, now, better known, properly refered to the Simarubeae. - observatis speciminibus Pyrenaicis intermediis, hanc formam insignem cum S. scordioide ut varietatem jungere nunc melius puto(Boissier), having observed intermediate Pyrenean specimens, I think at the present time it is better to join this striking form with S. scordioides as a variety. - (algae) nusquam vero melius quam in filamentis interioribus et cavitatem frondis percurrentibus Codii bursae haec structura apparet (Agardh), certainly nowhere does is this structure visible better than in the interior filaments and [those] running through the cavity of the frond of Codium bursa.
-mellus,-a,-um (adj.A): in L. (numerical) compounds: (a specified number) born at the same time, based on gemellus,-a,-um (adj.A): born at the same time, twin-born, paired [> L. geminus,-a,-um (adj.A), a twin, twin-born; cf. gener, genui (gigno): born at the same time]: gemellus (two-born, twin), trimellus (three-born, triplets), quadrimellus (four-born, quadruplets); 2-mellus, 3-mellus, 4-mellus; . - (mosses) frequentissime unicum tantum genitalium, nonnunquam duo, rarius tria, quatuor rarissime impraegnata reperiuntur; unde PEDVNCVLVS unius eiusdemque subinde perichaetii solitarius, gemellus tri-quadrimellusque reperitur (Hedw.); most frequently only one of the sex organs, sometimes two, more rarely three, extremely rarely four is found fertilized; whence a solitary peduncle [i.e. the seta] is found, of one and the same perichaetium, twin-born [paired], and three-four-born [i.e. triplets, quadruplets].
-mellus,-a,-um (adj.A): in L. (numerical) compounds: (a specified number) born at the same time, based on gemellus,-a,-um (adj.A): born at the same time, twin-born, paired [> L. geminus,-a,-um (adj.A), a twin, twin-born; cf. gener, genui (gigno): born at the same time]: gemellus (two-born, twin), trimellus (three-born, triplets), quadrimellus (four-born, quadruplets); 2-mellus, 3-mellus, 4-mellus; . - (mosses) frequentissime unicum tantum genitalium, nonnunquam duo, rarius tria, quatuor rarissime impraegnata reperiuntur; unde PEDVNCVLVS unius eiusdemque subinde perichaetii solitarius, gemellus tri-quadrimellusque reperitur (Hedw.); most frequently only one of the sex organs, sometimes two, more rarely three, extremely rarely four is found fertilized; whence a solitary peduncle [i.e. the seta] is found, of one and the same perichaetium, twin-born [paired], and three-four-born [i.e. triplets, quadruplets].