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For Erik Acharius, (1737 – 1819)**, Swedish botanist and physician.
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(Ch)
agape, = brotherly love, charity;
anthos, = a flower, the bloom of a flower.
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(LS)
apis, = a bee.
apium, = parsley, esp. liked by bees; an umbilliferous plant of several species (mountain-parsley, celery etc.). the leaves of one species (water parsley, our celery, the Apium graveolens) were used by the ancients for garlands, on account of their strong fragrance.
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(ld)
Latinization of the French-Canadian name Aralie for the Ivy Family.
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(K3)
ασϕοδελ, = (of unknown origin); asphodel. The earlier form, an adaptation of medieval Latin, was affodillus, whence daffodil. The White Asphodel or King’s Spear covers large tracts of land in Apulia, in southern Italy, where its leaves afford good nourhisment to sheep. From the genus the order has sometimes been called Aphodeliæ.
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(Ox)
astēr, = a star, any luminous body, meteor..
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