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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
Pastor,-oris (s.m.III), abl. sg. pastore, gen. sg. pastoris: a herdsman, a shepherd;

- pastor arabs, an Arab herdsman or shepherd.

- Adoratio pastorum, (eccles.) adoration of the shepherds.

- [Seligeria; moss] nomen in memoriam pastoris ecclesiae ‘Seliger’ Silesiaci, scrutatoris muscorum Silesiae olim acerrimi et indefessi impositum (C. Muell.), the name established in remembrance of ‘Seliger, Pastor of a church, a Silesian, once the most zealous and tireless student of the mosses of Silesia .

Capsella Bursa-pastoris, Shepherd’s-pouch, Shepherd’s-purse, “Bursa an old generic name” (Fernald 1950).

Pastor (Eng.noun) in many different Christian churches, a leader [shepherd] of a congregation [flock]; a minister or priest of a Protestant church or, the main priest of a parish in Roman Catholicism (after Wiktionary).

[Ornithology] Pastor,-oris (s.m.III), a passerine bird in the starling family: Pastor roseus, the rose- or rosey-colored starling.

 

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