Thursday, April 19, 2007

Plant Diversity Latin Words

Latin Words - I expect the most comments on this post. I don't have the full list nor do I expect them to all be correct. :)

An - not
Angium or Angio - vessel
Anth - flower
Apo - open
Arch or Archae - ancient
Asco - sack
Atacto - confusion
Auto - self
Bacillario - rod
Basidio - club
Biant - life
Bryo - moss
Cero - horn
Chlor - green
Chloro - green
Chytridio - liquid
Cleisto - closed
Copros - dung
Crypto - hidden
Cyano - blue
Cycad - palm
Cyte - cell
Dendron - wood
Deutero - second
Dino – to spin
Ecium - apartment
Endo - within
Er – male
Eu - true
Eugleno – good eye
Flavus - yellow
Gamete - marriage
Gens or Genesis - creation
Gymno - naked
Hapto – to bind
Hepato – liver
Hetero - different
Idium – very small
Iferous - bearing
Iso - same
Ium – “office” ending
Karyot – nut or nucleus
Lepedo - scaly
Lyco - wolf
Lysis – break down
Mer - unit
Meso - medium
Morph – shape, form
Mycota - fungi
Necro - death
Nema - thread
Oid - resemblance
Oma - growth
Oo - egg
Ophore - bearer
Ose – “sugar” ending
Patho - suffering
Pencil - brush
Peri - around
Petal – flower leaf
Phaeo - brown
Phyco - algae
Phyll - leaf
Phyte - plant
Plastid - body
Poly - many
Proto - before
Ptero - wing
Rhiz - root
Rhodo - red
Saccharo - sugar
Sapro - rotten
Separ - different
Sperm - seed
Stamen - thread
Stele - pillar
Stigma - spot
Stoma - mouth
Stroma – bed covering
Sym - together
Thec - box
Troph – nourished, nutrition
Zygo - pair

3 comments:

frogkisser said...

I think I liked the sesame street posts better.....:)

Kate said...

Uh. I took botany way too long ago for this... :)

Something McSomethingkins said...

The starbursts commercial didn't get much of a response because when you stop writing in your blog for a year, people stop reading it for a year!