{"id":32,"date":"2019-12-17T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T02:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/chapter\/the-meaning-of-plant-names\/"},"modified":"2020-09-18T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T16:03:24","slug":"the-meaning-of-plant-names","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/chapter\/the-meaning-of-plant-names\/","title":{"raw":"The Meaning of Plant Names","rendered":"The Meaning of Plant Names"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\"><header class=\"textbox__header\">\r\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/header>\r\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Describe the meaning of botanical names.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\nBotanical names often provide a helpful description of a plant. The origins of Latin and Greek names may be classical, mythological, or commemorative, or they may relate to a place, area, or season. Descriptors for plant surface characteristics or color, habitat, growth habit, and size and shape\u00a0 are other common sources for specific epithets. Familiarity with their meaning is helpful for remembering plant names. References such as the <em>Dictionary of Plant Names<\/em> by Allen J. Coombes (1994) or <em>The Names of Plants <\/em>(1996) contain interesting information on the origin and meaning of plant names. Information is also available online at these links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calflora.net\/botanicalnames\/index.html\"><em>Califlora: Plant Name Meanings and Derivations <\/em>[New Tab]<\/a>[footnote]http:\/\/www.calflora.net\/botanicalnames\/index.html[\/footnote] and <a href=\"http:\/\/theseedsite.co.uk\/latin.html\"><em>The Meaning of Latin Plant Names <\/em>[New Tab]<\/a>.[footnote]http:\/\/theseedsite.co.uk\/latin.html[\/footnote]\r\n<h2>Practice<\/h2>\r\nIdentify the meaning of each of the specific epithets using the links above to online resources.\r\n\r\n[h5p id=\"17\"]","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox textbox--learning-objectives\">\n<header class=\"textbox__header\">\n<p class=\"textbox__title\">Learning Objectives<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"textbox__content\">\n<ul>\n<li>Describe the meaning of botanical names.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Botanical names often provide a helpful description of a plant. The origins of Latin and Greek names may be classical, mythological, or commemorative, or they may relate to a place, area, or season. Descriptors for plant surface characteristics or color, habitat, growth habit, and size and shape\u00a0 are other common sources for specific epithets. Familiarity with their meaning is helpful for remembering plant names. References such as the <em>Dictionary of Plant Names<\/em> by Allen J. Coombes (1994) or <em>The Names of Plants <\/em>(1996) contain interesting information on the origin and meaning of plant names. Information is also available online at these links to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calflora.net\/botanicalnames\/index.html\"><em>Califlora: Plant Name Meanings and Derivations <\/em>[New Tab]<\/a><a class=\"footnote\" title=\"http:\/\/www.calflora.net\/botanicalnames\/index.html\" id=\"return-footnote-32-1\" href=\"#footnote-32-1\" aria-label=\"Footnote 1\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[1]<\/sup><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/theseedsite.co.uk\/latin.html\"><em>The Meaning of Latin Plant Names <\/em>[New Tab]<\/a>.<a class=\"footnote\" title=\"http:\/\/theseedsite.co.uk\/latin.html\" id=\"return-footnote-32-2\" href=\"#footnote-32-2\" aria-label=\"Footnote 2\"><sup class=\"footnote\">[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Practice<\/h2>\n<p>Identify the meaning of each of the specific epithets using the links above to online resources.<\/p>\n<div id=\"h5p-17\">\n<div class=\"h5p-iframe-wrapper\"><iframe id=\"h5p-iframe-17\" class=\"h5p-iframe\" data-content-id=\"17\" style=\"height:1px\" src=\"about:blank\" frameBorder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"Meaning of Plant Names\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"before-footnotes clear\" \/><div class=\"footnotes\"><ol><li id=\"footnote-32-1\">http:\/\/www.calflora.net\/botanicalnames\/index.html <a href=\"#return-footnote-32-1\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 1\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><li id=\"footnote-32-2\">http:\/\/theseedsite.co.uk\/latin.html <a href=\"#return-footnote-32-2\" class=\"return-footnote\" aria-label=\"Return to footnote 2\">&crarr;<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":90,"menu_order":7,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-32","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":19,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32\/revisions\/351"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/19"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/32\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/plantidentification\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}