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Headword:
*flo/nos
Adler number: phi,540
Translated headword: mullein
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [no gloss]
Greek Original:*flo/nos.
Notes:
On this (unglossed) headword
flo/nos, a masculine noun in the nominative singular, see
Dioscorides Pedanius,
De materia medica 4.103.3;
Etymologicum Magnum 796.28 (Kallierges); ps.-
Zonaras 1813.15 (Tittmann); and LSJ s.v. It is the name of a toxic herbaceous plant, probably one of the mulleins,
Verbascum sinuatum (Tutin, p. 213; Polunin, no. 1191). Alternative names for this same member of the figwort family are
flo/mos, -ou, -h( (LSJ s.v. and
Theophrastus,
Enquiry into Plants 9.12.3) and
plo/mos, -ou, -o( (LSJ s.v. and
Aristotle,
History of Animals 602b.31).
Adler also cites the
Ambrosian Lexicon (352).
T.G. Tutin, et al., eds., Flora Europaea, vol. 3 (Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972
O. Polunin, Flowers of Europe, London: Oxford University Press, 1969
Keywords: botany; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; zoology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 13 February 2009@03:58:35.
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