A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

-vagus,-a,-um (adj.A): in L. comp. wandering, rambling, roaming, straying;

- montivagus, wandering over the mountains; mundivagus,-a,-um (adj.A): spreading around the world, that which wanders about the world, wide-spread; nemorivagus,-a,-um (adj.A): woodland-grove rambling; noctivagus,-a,-um (adj.A): night-wandering, that wanders about by night, as the moon; nubivagus,-a,-um (adj.A): wandering among the couds, cloud (-forest) dwelling; paludivagus, wandering over the bog; undivagus,-a,-um (adj.A), wandering in the waves.

Viola sororia X V. montivaga; Cuscuta gronovii var. vulgivaga, ‘wandering everywhere.’

vagus,-a,-um (adj.A): uncertain, having no particular direction, drifting, in several directions, rambling, wandering, unfixed, unsettled, irregular; inconstant, doubtful, vague, indefinite; unclear, imprecise, inexact; cf. obscurus,-a,-um (adj.A);

vague (Eng.adj.): “not clearly expressed: stated in general or indefinitite terms; not clearly defined … indi9ctinct; not sharply outlines: dim or indistinct in form or character;

- caulis pinnatus, raro vagus, stem pinnate, rarely irregular.

- raphe ventrali et micropyle supera v. vaga (B&H), with the raphe ventral and the micropyle superior or indefinite.

- vagas intelleximus et aliis melioribus, e structura foliorum caulinorum, rameorum et peduncularium ductis, usi sumus (C. Muell.), we have understood these to be uncertain and we have used [+ dat] better ones, from the structure of the cauline, branch and peduncular leaves.

Halorhiza vaga (a maritime alga), ‘the drifting Halorhiza.’