Download or read book Botanical Latin written by William Thomas Stearn and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 1995 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Botanical Latin is an internationally used technical language developed over the past 250 years for the naming and description of plants. In that time, in order to meet the expanding need for accurate scientific descriptions, its vocabulary has been continually enriched with new words, mostly coined from Greek, and with classical Latin words now given precise and particular botanical meanings.