Common Scientific Names Flashcards
acutus
sharpened, pointed
albus
white
anthos
flower
apis
bee
aquaticus
found near water
arborescens
tree or shrub-like
arctos
bear
arvensis
in the field
aureus
golden
australis
southern
baccatus
berry-bearing
borealis
northern
brachy-
short
brevi-
short
cauda
tail
caulos
stem, stalk
-ceps
head
cephalo
head
echinatus
spiny, prickly
edulis
edible
eliator
taller
elegans
elegant
ennea
nine
-ensis
of, from (a place)
erio-
wool, wooly
erosus
indented, jagged, serrated
erythro-
red
folium
leaf
glabra
smooth, hairless
glacialis
icy, frozen, glacial
graveolens
strong-smelling
hirsutus
hairy
lepus
hare
lobos
lobe
maculatus
spotted
marginatus
bordered
mephitis
bad odor
montanus
mountains
morpho-
shape
nothos
false, wrong
officinalis
for the workshop; medicinal
ophis
serpent
-opsis
resembling
parvus
small
pratensis
of the meadow
pruriens
itching
pubescens
downy
reptans
creeping, crawling
ulos
wooly
variegatus
variegated
exulans
exiling
lanata
woolly
lapponum
downy
reticulata
net-like
procumbens
creeping
spinosa
thorny
perennis
perennial