Species within a genus

crocus, = saffron; Crocus or Crocos**, a youth who metamorphosed into a saffron flower;
-eus, =indicates material or colour resemblance in quality.
croceus, = of or pertaining to saffron, saffron; saffron- coloured, yellow, golden.
(saffron yellow, cadmium yellow, from the stigmas of the Crocus sativus)
(ld, BL)

grandis, = full-grown, large, great, full, abundant.
(large, great, big, tall, lofty)
(ld, BL)

For Carl von Linné (Linnaeus) (1707-1778).**
(Ch)

pilus, = hair, the hair;
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development;
pilosus, = hairy, shaggy;
(pilose, hairy with distinct long ascending hairs)
-ellus, = diminutive;
-oides, = like, resembling, having the form or nature of.
(hairy)
(ld, BL)

tomentum, = a stuffing for cushions (e.g. of wool, hair, feathers, straw, etc.);
(tomentose, matted woolly down on stems and leaves)
-osus, = indicates abundance or full or marked development.
(tomentose; thickly and evenly covered with short more or less appressed curled or curved matted hairs)
(ld, BL)