Property:Etymology

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Usage2264

C

Cochlearia +

Latin cochlear, spoon, alluding to leaf shape of some species +

Cocos +

derivation of name uncertain +

Codriophorus +

Distorted Greek kodon, bell, and phoras, bearing, alluding to capsules with bell-shaped calyptrae +

Coeloglossum +

Greek koilos, hollow, and glossa, tongue +

Coelophragmus +

Greek kilos (Latin coelus), hollow, and phragmos, partition, alluding to deep pits on sides of fruit septum where seeds are located +

Coincya +

For Auguste Henri Cornut de Coincy, 1837–1903, Spanish botanist, discoverer of first species described +

Coleogyne +

Greek koleos, sheath, and gyne, female, alluding to thin staminal tubelike sheath surrounding ovary and style +

Collinsia +

For Zaccheus Collins, 1764–1831, Philadelphia botanist +

Colocasia +

classical Greek name derived from an old Middle Eastern name colcas or culcas +

Colubrina +

Latin coluber, racer snake, perhaps alluding to twisting of deep furrows on stems of some species +

Columbiadoria +

Columbia (River), and doria, an early name for goldenrods +

Comandra +

Greek kome, hair, and andros, male, alluding to petal hairs that attach to anthers +

Comarostaphylis +

Greek komaros, arbutus, and staphyle, cluster of grapes, alluding to resemblance of fruit clusters to those of Arbutus unedo +

Comarum +

Greek komaros, strawberry-tree (Arbutus unedo Linnaeus), alluding to similarity of fruit +

Combretum +

Latin, derived from a name applied by Pliny the Elder to a climbing plant of uncertain identity +

Commelina +

for the two Dutch botanists Jan and Kaspar Commelijn, because of the two showy petals +

Commicarpus +

Greek kommi, gum, and carpos, fruit, in reference to gummy-glandular fruit +

Comptonia +

for Henry Compton, amateur horticulturist and Bishop of London +

Conardia +

For Henry Shoemaker Conard, 1874–1971, bryologist of Grinnell College, Iowa +

Condalia +

For Antonio Condal, 1745–1804, Spanish physician who accompanied Peter Loefling on a journey up the Orinoco River +

Conicosia +

Greek konikos, cone-shaped, in reference to the capsule +

Conimitella +

Latin conus, cone, and genus Mitella, alluding to hypanthium shape and general resemblance +

Conocarpus +

Greek konos, cone, and karpos, fruit, alluding to shape of densely clustered fruits +

Conoclinium +

Greek konos, cone, and kline, bed, alluding to conic receptacles +

Conopholis +

Greek conos, cone, and pholis, scale, alluding to conelike inflorescences +

Conostomum +

Greek konos, cone, and stoma, opening, alluding to operculum +

Conringia +

For Hermann Conring, 1606–1681, German professor of medicine and philosophy at Helmstedt +

Consolea +

For Michelangelo Console, 1812–1897, of Palermo Botanic Garden, Italy +

Consolida +

Latin consolidatus, to become solid or firm, from reputed ability to heal wounds +

Constancea +

For Lincoln Constance, 1909–2001, Californian botanist +

Convallaria +

Latin convallis, valley +

Conyza +

Ancient name for fleabane +, perhaps from Greek konops, flea, or konis, dust, alluding to powdered dry plant being used to repel insects +

Coptis +

Greek, kopto, to cut, referring to dissected leaves +

Corallorhiza +

Greek korallion, coral, and rhiza, root, referring to coral-like appearance of branching, underground rhizome +

Corchorus +

Greek kore, eye pupil, and koreo, to purge or clear, alluding to use of leaves +

Cordylanthus +

Greek kordyle, club, and anthos, flower, alluding to somewhat clavate corolla +

Corema +

Greek, korema, broom, alluding to growth form +

Coreocarpus +

Greek koreos, bug, and karpos, fruit, alluding to pectinately winged cypselae of original species +

Coreopsis +

Greek korios, bedbug, and -opsis, resembling, alluding to cypselae of original species +

Corethrogyne +

Greek korethron, broom, and gyne, female, alluding to style-branch appendages +

Corispermum +

Greek coris, bug, and spermum, seed +

Cornus +

Latin cornu, horn, alluding to the hard wood +

Corrigiola +

Latin corrigia, shoelace, perhaps alluding to the slender stems +

Corydalis +

Greek korydallis, crested lark +

Corylus +

Latin corylus, hazel, from Greek korus, helmet, for shape and hardness of nut shells +

Coryphantha +

Greek coryph, head/helmet/crown, and Greek anthos, flower, refe rring to the apical location of flowers in contrast with the ring of lateral flowers in the related genus Mammillaria +

Coscinodon +

Greek koskinon, sieve, and odon, tooth, alluding to peristome +

Cosmos +

Greek kosmos, harmoniously ordered universe, or kosmo, ornament +

Cota +

Possibly from pre-Linnaean generic name used as epithet in Anthemis cota Linnaeus +

Cotoneaster +

Latin cotoneum, quince, and - aster, incomplete resemblance, alluding to similarity of leaves in some species +