Aquatic Plant Glossary Abbreviations & References

    a. - adjective
    alt. - alternative name (synonym)
    AS. - Anglo-Saxon
    Comb. Form. - Combining form
    Dan. - Danish
    Dim. - diminutive
    E. - English
    esp. - especially
    Fr. - French
    fr. - from
    G. - German
    Gael. - Gaelic
    Goth. - gothic
    Gr. - Greek
    Icel. - Icelandic
    i.e. - for example
    Ir. - Irish
    It. - Italian
    L. - Latin
    LL. - Low Latin, Late Latin
    MD. - Middle Dutch
    ME. - Middle English
    n. - noun
    NL. - New Latin
    OE. - Old English
    O.Fr. - Old French
    OHG. - Old High German
    ON. - Old Norse
    perh. - perhaps
    pl. - plural
    pp. - past participle
    prob. - probably
    pres. part. - present participle
    Scand. - Scandinavian
    Skt. - Sanskrit
    Sp. - Spanish
    specif. - specifically
    Sw. - Swedish
    vt. - verb transitive
    W. - Welsh

    Grove, P.B. (ed.) 1971. Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged. G. & C. Merriam Co., Springfield, MA, 2662 pp.

    Holmes, S. 1979. Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Terms. 9th ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., NY, 510 pp.

    Webster, N. 1983. Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary. 2nd ed. Simon and Schuster, NY, 2129 pp.

copyright (C) 1996 David Sutton
Revised: January 1996