A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

World (Eng.noun): mundus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. mundo, ‘the universe, the world and the heavenly bodies, the heavens, the earth; orbis (s.m.III), gen. sg. orbis, abl.sg. orbe; also orbis terrae, orbis terrarum (gen. sg. and pl. respectively of terra,-ae s.f.I);

NOTE: orbis terrarium, orbis terrae, the world; “the central land surface of the world (as conceived by the ancients surrounded by Ocean and consisting roughtly of Europe, Asia, and Africa)” (Glare).

- [Funariaceae; moss] per orbem terrarum totum, e planitiebus ad Alpes, sed raro, ascendentes, solum argillosum, arenarium vel carbone vegetabilium mixtum vel turfosa praeferentes (C. Muell), throughout the whole world, ascending from the plains [i.e. lowlands] to the Alpes, but rare, preferring clayey, sandy, soil, or soil mixed with the charcoal of plants or boggy soil.

- bimundorum, of two worlds.

- mundus triformis, a world made up of three parts (air, earth, water).

- herbae in alpestribus totius orbis crescentes, herbs in high places of the whole world growing;

- species inter tropicos in utroque orbe vigentes, species between the tropics on both sides of the world thriving;

- in regionibus intertropicis utriusque hemisphaerii, in intertropical regions of both hemispheres.

Old World: orbis vetus, orbis antiquus;

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

- Hermaphrodites, in orbe veteri indigenae (DeCandolle), [species] hermaphrodite, native to the old world.

Old World (adj.): gerontogaeus,-a,-um (adj.A); species gerontogaeae, Old World species.

New World: orbis novus, America. New World (adj.): neogaeus,-a,-um (adj.A), americanus,-a,-um (adj.A) (Stearn 1983);

- herbae frutices vel arbores pro parte maxima ex orbe antiquo, herbs, shrubs or trees for the most part from the Old World.

world-wandering: mundivagus,-a,-um (adj.A), ‘wandering in the world, cosmopolitan;’ mundivagans,-antis (part.B).