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Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: William Thomas Stearn
Categories: Botany
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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Stearn's classic dictionary of the meaning and origin of some 6,000 botanical names
Dictionary of Plant Names
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Allen J. Coombes
Categories: Gardening
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Timber Press (OR)

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Publisher description: The Dictionary of Plant Names is a guide that not only cross references common names to their Latin counterparts, but also details the or
CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names
Language: en
Pages: 647
Authors: Umberto Quattrocchi
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-11-22 - Publisher: CRC Press

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This volume provides the origins and meanings of the names of genera and species of extant vascular plants, with the genera arranged alphabetically from R to Z.
Dictionary of Plant Lore
Language: en
Pages: 482
Authors: D.C. Watts
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-02 - Publisher: Elsevier

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Knowledge of plant names can give insight into largely forgotten beliefs. For example, the common red poppy is known as "Blind Man" due to an old superstitious
Elsevier's Dictionary of Plant Names and Their Origin
Language: en
Pages: 1038
Authors:
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-19 - Publisher:

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The dictionary contains about 30,000 vernacular and literary English names of plants (plus a few American), both wild and cultivated, with their botanical name