Species within a genus
Aithiops, (αίθώ, όψ), = an Ethiop, negro, properly Burnt-face.
Aethiopia, = a country in Africa, on both sides of the equator. Its limits cannot be accurately defined.
(usually South Africa, in classical use Africa south of Libya and Egypt, hence Abyssinia)
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.
(LS, ld, BL)
Aethiopia, = a country in Africa, on both sides of the equator. Its limits cannot be accurately defined.
(usually South Africa, in classical use Africa south of Libya and Egypt, hence Abyssinia)
-icus, = indicates ‘belonging to’.
(LS, ld, BL)
ccape, = Cape of Good Hope;
-ensis, = indicates country or place of growth, or origin or else habitat.
(pertaining to the Cape of Good Hope; Cape Peninsula)
(BL)
-ensis, = indicates country or place of growth, or origin or else habitat.
(pertaining to the Cape of Good Hope; Cape Peninsula)
(BL)
compingo, compactum, = to join or unite several parts into one whole, to put together, frame, make by joining, compose; compact, thick-set, thick, firm.
(ld)
(ld)
For Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krausse (1812-1890),** German botanist and traveller, professor and Director of the Natural History Museum at Stuttgart, zoologist and plant collector in South Africa, associated with Stuttgart Natural History Museum. He also studied minerology and chemistry. He came to the Cape in 1838, and did much plant collecting in Natal in 1839 and 1840.
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)
-anus, = belonging to, connected with, pertaining to, used to form adjectives from nouns, particularly from geographical and personal names.
(Ch, BL)