A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Variole: a diminutive in meaning of a fovea (a small pit), 'a minute pit;' “pustular shields such as are found in the genus Variolaria” [a lichen] (Lindley); “a pustular shield occurring on the thallus of the Lichen genus Variolaria” (Jackson): variola,-ae (s.f.I), abl. sg. variola. Note that variolite is 'a basic rock embedded with whitish spherules' (WIII), the varioles in the sense of 'nodules' (as in various pox diseases) rather than pits. In Medieval Latin the word became associated with 'pustule, pox', from the Late Latin for pustule [“the pustule of small-pox” Jackson)] (WIII); see varus,-i (s.m.II).

Pustula,-ae (s.f.I): “1. a pimple or blister; 2. used by Sir J. E. Smith for variola” (Jackson).

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