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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
Alces,-is (s.f.III), acc.sg. alcen, abl.sg. alce, nom. & acc. pl. alces, dat. & abl.sg. alcibus = Gk. alkE: the elk, living in the northern regions: Cervus alces L. (Lewis & Short), also Alces alces (British; Eurasian species). Alces americana, the moose, “a large ruminant mammal of the family Cervidae” (WIII); see elapho-;

- Omnia Genera & species naturalia sunt. Non enim licet conjungere sub eodem genere Equum & Suem: licet ambae species monungulae essent; nec Capreolum, Rangiferum & Alcen genere distinguere, licet cornuum figura differant (Linn.), all the species and genera are [natural]. Certainly it is not allowed to unite the Horse and the Hog under the same genus: although both species may have been monungulate [i.e. possessing a single hoof]; nor [is it permitted] to separate by a genus the Roebuck, Reindeer [= Caribou], and Elk , although they may differ by the shape of the horns.

 

A work in progress, presently with preliminary A through R, and S, and with S (in part) through Z essentially completed.
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