A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

primigenius,-a,-um (adj.A): first-produced; first-born; “first of all, first of its kind, original; primordial, i.e. first created; the first or primary form; primitive,” with the suggestion of great age, old; “= primitivus,-a,-um (adj.A)” (Jackson); also the one who is born first [> L. primus ‘first’ + -gen-, L. gigno, inf. gignere, ‘to beget; bring forth’ (Lewis & Short)]; see original; see primordius,-a,-um (adj.A); primitivus,-a,-um (adj.A);

- sulcus primigenius, the initial or first furrow.

- flores post nati in hic non minus quam in minore specie supra primigenos eminent, ramulis quorum fastigiis insident medio caule altius exsurgentibus, ut in Gnaphalo vulgari (Ray), the flowers, after they arise, emerge, in this no less than in the smaller species, above those that are produced first, with their branchlets borne in fastigia [i.e. erect, parallel branch-bundles coming together at the apex into a point], extending outward higher than the middle of the stem, as in Gnaphalium vulgare.

- [Ostrya] “Ostrys, vel Ostrya dicitur a Graeca, & primigenia voce [Gk. osrus [sic][osrys), vel [Gk. osrua [sic [osrya], apud Theophrastum occurrente (Michelli), [The genus is called] Ostrys or Ostrya from a Greek and original [i.e. old] word osrys [sic], or osrya [sic], occurring in the works of Theophrastus.

NOTE: Michelli seems to have accidently omitted the ‘t’ from the Gk. word.

Fortuna primigenia: one of the children, or the first born daughter, of Jupiter; or else the primordial diety, the first of the gods to be created; goddess of the Roman city of Praeneste and focus of an oracular cult.

Bos primigenius, an extinct ancestor of modern domestic cattle (Bos taurus); the auroch of the Pleistocene megafauna.

Melo primigenius; Annona primigenia, Frullania primigenia; Combretum primigenum, Taraxacum primigenium.