A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vindicatus,-a,-um (part.A): justified, vindicated; defended [> L. vindico,-avi,-atum, 1. to claim, to claim as ones own, lay claim to, to appropriate; to justify, to vindicate; to deliver, liberate; protect, defend];

vindicate (Eng.verb): to clear someone of suspicious or blame, to liberate, free, redeem; to show or prove to be right or justified, substantiate, establish, ratify, authenticate, confirm, corroborate, verify, endorse.

- sub silentio praeterimus: 1. Nomina sectionalia pro generibus propriis a nemine vindicata (B&H), we pass over in silence: 1. sectional names for proper genera laid claim to by nobody.

- his aequo jure addenda videntur genera 6 polyandra ab auctoribus citatis proposita v. vindicata (B&H), to these [sc genera] the 6 polyandrous genera by the authors cited seem with equal justification to be added, proposed or vindicated.

- species perpaucas petalis dentatis v. laciniatis includentes pro generibus distinctis nuper (Willk. Ic. Pl. Eur. Occid. i. 78) vindicatae, melius inter Eusilenes militantur (B&H), the species, including a very few with petals dentate or laciniate recently justified for distinct [i.e. separate] genera (Willk. Ic. Pl. Eur. Occid. i. 78), are better served among the Eusilenes.