A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin


Tree, “any woody plant of perennial duration which rises from the ground with a trunk” (Lindley); "perennial woody plant with an evident trunk" (Fernald 1950): arbor,-oris (s.f.III), abl.sg. arbore, nom.& acc. pl. arbores, gen. pl. arborum, dat. & abl. pl. arboribus; see dendr-, dendro-, -dendron,-i (s.n.II), in Gk. comp., ‘tree;’ see wood, woodland; - arbor Americae tropicae parva et humilis vel mediocris vel etiam procera, trunco usque ad 1 m. diametro, 3 m. peripheria, ligno albido fragili, cortice cinereo fissili, ramis patentibus, tree of tropical America small and low or medium-sized or even tall, with the trunk up to 1 m. in diameter, 3 m. in circumference, the wood whitish fragile, the bark gray splitting, the branches spreading (Stearn). - habitat in sylvis ad arborum radices, it grows in forests at the roots of trees. - fungus propagationes e ramis arborum accretas efficiens, fungus producing massed outgrowths from the branches of trees. - lianae in vertice arborum scandentes, lianas climbing into the top of trees. Broad-leaved (deciduous) tree: arbor frondosa (adj.A). Needle-leaved (evergreen; coniferous) tree: arbor acerosa (adj.A). NOTE: a tree: “a plant with a single woody stem, growing at least three times as high as a man” (S.Gray). Note: Ida (Ionic IdE): a thick wood, wood, copse; timber; Ida, a mountain in Phrygia near Troy; also another in Crete (Liddell & Scott); cf. idaeus,-a,-um (adj.A) (Gk. idaios), pertaining to wooded Mount Ida: Rubus idaeus L., the red raspberry, naturalized in the United States.
tree-: in L. comp. arbor-, arbori-; - arboriformis,-e (adj.B), in the form of a tree. Arborella, a genus of fungi. in Gk. comp. dendr-, q.v., dendro-, -dendron,-i (s.n.II): in Gk. comp.; Liriodendron,-i (s.n.II); Dendropogon usneoides; Dendrolycopodium dendroideum (Lycopodiaceae); Tremellodendron,-I (s.n.II), a gray fungus with many stout erect branches (Miller). in Gk. comp. dry-, dryo-; -drys,-yis (s.f.III), tree-, oak-; see dry-, dryo-; - dryophilus, dryophilous, wood-loving; dryophyllus, dryophyllous, with the character of Oak leaves. - Halidrys (genus of marine plants, alga); Phycodrys (alga); Pseudophycodrys (alga). Dryopteris,-idis (s.f.III), the Oak- or Tree-fern. in Gk. comp. drym-, drymo-;-drymus,-i (s.m.II): forest, woodland [> Gk. drymos (s.m.II), an oak wood, oak-coppice]; - Drymobius margaritiferus, a species of snake; Drymocallis, a synonym of Potentilla, Drymoglossum carnosum, a species of fern; Heliodrymus ramosus, a species of radiolarian.
tree-like, “resembling a tree, but very small” (Lindley); see dendroideus,-a,-um (adj.A). {moss] Climacium dendroides, a large moss with a tree-like habit.