A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vocatus,-a,-um (part.A): called, named [> L. voco,-avi,-atus, vocare, 1. to call, to call upon, summon]; see ‘named, called;’

- in sylvula Pancretch vocata, in the little wood called ‘Pancretchy’ (Stearn in Ray).

- in vico vulgo vocato Fleetstreet, on the street commonly called Fleetstreet.

vocat: third-person singular present active indicative: [he/she] it calls, names;

- [Byssus petraea crocea, Saffron coloured Rock Byssus] Linnaeus tamen non a lapide, sed Bysso emanare odorem vult, & Byssum perennem pulverulentam rubram, lapidibus innascentem vocat (Dill.), Linnaeus, however, does not wish the odor to emanate from a stone, but from a Byssus, and he calls it the perennial, pulverulent red growing-on-stones Byssus.

vocantur: third-person plural present passive indicative; they are called, named;

- petala vocantur folia illa, quae forma & colore plerumque caeteris partibus praestant, quaeque nunquam siunt proprium seminis involucrum (Tourn.); the petals are called those leaves, which, by form and color, usually surpass the other parts, and each [petal] may never be the proper involucre of the seed.

vocatur: third-person singular present passive indicative, [he/she] it is called, named;

- (calamus) qui vocatur donax, non nisi in aquaticis natus, the calamus, which is called donax, not grown except in aquatic [i.e. marshy] places.

vocare (pres. active inf.);

- semiuncialem magnitudinem non multum superat haec elegans species caule crassiore destituta, nervis mediis lateralibus fibris parum crassioribus, in innumera filamenta tenuissima, varie invicem intexta, abeuntibus, paene instar mundi muliebris, quem Lace Angli, Kanten & Spitzen Germani vocare solent (Dill.), this elegant species does not exceed more magnitude than one half inch, lacking a thicker stem, with the middle, lateral nerves somewhat thicker than [the fibers], passing into innumerable very delicate filaments, variously interlaced, [back and forth, this way and that], almost like a [woman’s ornament of dress] which the English are accustomed to call Lace, the Germans Kanten [lace-trim] and Spitzen (lace].