A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Totum,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. toto: the whole, all, the entirety; opp. pars, gen. sg. partis (s.f.III) 'part,' opp. dimidium,-ii (s.n.II), 'half;' see totus, tota, totum (irregular adj.A);

- in toto: totally; entirely; completely.

- in toto: on the whole.

- in totum: to the full extent, altogether (Glare).

- in totum: in general (Glare).

- ex toto: completely, absolutely, utterly.

- toto caelo (coelo), by the whole of heaven, ‘exceedingly;’

- [moss] per totum alpium tractum Europae centralis, Scotiae et Scandinaviae, nusquam tamen copiose, et praecipue in stercore animali (C. Mueller), throughout the whole of the alps region of central Europe, of Scotland and Scandinavia, yet nowhere abundantly, and primarily on animal dung.

- totum foliorum in comam dispositum, all of the leaves arranged in a coma.

- bracteae partis inflorescentiae fertilis glandulosae, dimidii inferioris sterilis glabrae, toti breve cuspidatae, bracts of the fertile part of the inflorescence glandulose, of the lower sterile half spotted, of the whole shortly cuspidate.

- in toto visus,-a,-um (part.A), 'seen in the entirety' 'seen en masse';

- sporae in toto visae purpureae, spores seen en masse purple.

- per totum orbis antiqui hemisphaerium boreale, throughout the whole of the northern hemisphere of the Old World.

- B. unguiculatam ex habitu aemulat, sed teneritate, exiguitate foliisque planiusculis mollissimis toto coelo differt, it resembles B. unguiculata in its habit, but it differs exceedingly by its delicacy, its minuteness and by the leaves rather flat, very soft.

NOTE: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: (Aristotle: Metaphysics) W. D. Ross translation “In the case of all things which have several parts and in which the totality is not, as it were, a mere heap, but the whole is something besides the parts, there is a cause; for even in bodies contact is the cause of unity in some cases, and in others viscosity or some other such quality.”