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Re: [aroid-l] Etymology of AROID
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From: "Planter Rik" planterrik at hotmail.com> on 2002.10.17 at 17:30:00(9560)
Personally, I enjoyed Mr. Schmid's display of erudition and passion, and I
will save his useful notes and conclusions.
I'm not a classics scholar or a botanist. I'm just handy with some common
reference works, which has its limitations.
But try me on 19th-century French poetry!
Rik
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Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:00:36 -0400
Someone contacted me privately and asked me to keep it simple and post what
"aroid" translates to. In the sense of Theophrastus, who first published
the
name aron (= Dracunculus vulgaris) in his The History of Plants it means:
Aroid = aron + oides = resembling Dracunculus vulgaris (not lily or
trillium). WGS
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