umbellifer

Any plant of the family Apiaceae, also called Umbelliferae, whose inflorescence is an umbel, such as a carrot or celery.

skærmplante

any plant of the family Apiaceae/Umbelliferae


sweetleaf

en-noun

sweetleaf (countable and uncountable, plural sweetleafs)

Any plant of the genus Stevia, from which stevia is extracted.

Sauropus androgynus, a plant of the family Phyllanthaceae whose leaves may be used as a potherb.

Symplocos tinctoria, an evergreen shrub or small tree in the southeastern United States.

Monarda fistulosa
Monarda fistulosa#Translingual

Monarda fistulosa, wild bergamot, a medicinal and ornamental herb.


guelder rose

/ˈɡɛldə(ɹ)ˌɹəʊz/

Named after the province of Gelderland in the Netherlands.

My husband bought some guelder roses from an Albanian

1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 799:

Viburnum opulus
Viburnum opulus#Translingual

A deciduous shrub (Viburnum opulus), having small white flowers.


whortleberry

An alteration of Middle English hurtilbery, hurtil-beri (see English hurtleberry), analysable as whortle + berry. Compare English huckleberry.

Vaccinium myrtillus
Vaccinium myrtillus#Translingual

Any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Vaccinium:

Vaccinium myrtillus (bilberry or blue whortleberry);

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea#Translingual

Vaccinium vitis-idaea (lingonberry or red whortleberry);

Vaccinium uliginosum
Vaccinium uliginosum#Translingual

Vaccinium uliginosum (bog whortleberry or bilberry).


jequirity bean

Abrus precatorius
Abrus precatorius#Translingual

A poisonous bean, produced by the jequirity plant (Abrus precatorius) and used for making jewelry and percussion instruments.


nabk

Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]

1870, Christian Henry Bateman, editor, The Bible class magazine, volume 10, page 61:

Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.


daphne

From translingual Daphne, from Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”).

Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.


sugar apple

Annona squamosa
Annona squamosa#Translingual

Sweetsop, Annona squamosa, a West Indian tree or its fruit.


sugar bush

An evergreen shrub found in the southwestern United States of America, Rhus ovata.


sugar pea

(US) A vegetable pea eaten when immature, mangetout.


mangetout

mangetout (countable and uncountable, plural mangetouts)

Borrowed from French mangetout, from mange (“eat”) + tout (“all”), since even the pod is edible.

Pisum sativum
Pisum sativum#Translingual

A vegetable pea (Pisum sativum) eaten when immature.

sokeriherne

vegetable pea eaten when immature — see also snow pea


blue lotus

A lily-like aquatic flower growing in Asia and North Africa, Nymphaea caerulea, revered by the Ancient Egyptians.


genipap

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese jenipapo, from Old Tupi îanypaba. The Tupi meaning of the word is variously given as yandi-pawa or yandi-pab (“fruit for painting”), yandi-ibá-pab (“fruit of the extremities for painting”), and without citation or explanation, “breast of an old woman”.

bor+

Genipap is wild and cultivated in many parts of the Amazon, especially on floodplains, from the river's mouth to the Andean foothills in Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia.

2023, Nigel Smith, Amazon Fruits: An Ethnobotanical Journey, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 1109:

The North and South American tree Genipa americana of the family Rubiaceae.


savin

en-noun

savin (countable and uncountable, plural savins)

Inherited from Middle English savyne, from Old French savine, from Latin sabīna. Compare Old English safine.

Juniperus virginiana
Juniperus virginiana#Translingual

The eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America.


silver fir

Any of several species large evergreen coniferous trees of genus Abies (firs):

A Pacific silver fir (Abies amabilis), native to western North America


yaupon

yaupon (countable and uncountable, plural yaupons)

From a Catawba word, most likely yap, yop, yą (“tree”), with the second element being either a diminutive suffix or pą (“leaf”) (resulting in the compound yąpą); alternatively, perhaps directly from a longer form of the word for leaf, 'yap'hâ.

Yaupon is evergreen like the American holly and the familiar hollies of Christmas decorations, but the leaves of yaupon are small and smooth-edged rather than prickly. Easy to chew and blandly tasty, they would not stand out in a tossed salad.

2002, Connie C. Barlow, The Ghosts of Evolution: Nonsensical Fruit, Missing Partners, and Other Ecological Anachronisms:

The yaupon holly, Ilex vomitoria, an evergreen holly shrub with white flowers and red or yellow berries, found in the south-eastern United States.


sanders

From Middle English saundres (“sandalwood”), from Old French sandre, from Medieval Latin sandalum, from Byzantine Greek σάνδανον (sándanon), σάνταλον (sántalon), from Arabic صَنْدَل (ṣandal), from Middle Persian [script needed] (cndl /čandal/, “sandalwood”), from Sanskrit चन्दन (candana, “sandalwood”).

der

(obsolete) sandalwood, especially the red sandalwood


masu

A plant, Hedysarum alpinum, whose edible root is consumed by the Inuit of Alaska.


masu

From Japanese 鱒 (masu, “trout, sea trout, salmon”).

bor

masu-seki

possibly etymologically unrelated, but it is Japanese, like previous etymologies.


tingi

A Brazilian tree, Magonia pubescens, whose seeds yield soap.


heal-all

en-noun

heal-all (countable and uncountable, plural heal-alls)

Widely used in Argentina as a heal-all, propoleum is found in a variety of forms, from candies to syrups.

1996, Public Health Reports, volume 111, number 4, page 554:


selfheal

Inherited from Middle English selfhele, selfehale, sylfhele, from Old English self-hǣlu, equivalent to self + heal.

Prunella vulgaris
Prunella vulgaris#Translingual

A small, herbaceous European plant with blue-violet flowers from any species of genus Prunella.


tamarack

tamarack (countable and uncountable, plural tamaracks)

From Canadian French tamarac, believed to derive from an Algonquian word.
In European languages there was contamination between tacamahac, from Nahuatl, and various Algonquian words containing the final Proto-Algonquian *-a·xkw- (“hardwood or deciduous tree”), including the sources of tamarack and hackmatack, as was already recognized by Chamberlain 1902. This makes the precise Algonquian words involved difficult to recover.

der

The women peeled tamarack bark for tea, dug through the deep snow in hopes of finding a few dried fiddleheads.

2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 36:

The motor court was set back from the highway and shaded not by tamaracks but by huge stately elms.

Any of several North American larches, of the genus Larix.


Judas tree

From a European folk belief that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on a tree of this species (the account in the Christian scriptures says he hanged himself, but gives no details).

The Spaniards and Portuguese title the siliquastrum the lovely tree, or tree of love; and we call it Judas tree, from a tradition, that it was the tree Judas hanged himself upon.

1762 June, “The compendious System of Natural History”, in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, volume 30, page 297:

[…] children, drawing water,
Looked up and paused to see,
Amid the apple branches,
A purple Judas tree.

1858, Adelaide Anne Procter, “The Wayside Inn”, in Legends and Lyrics, New York: D. Appleton, page 119:

[The garden] is a tangle of briars and grey sage, and here and there a judas tree in full flower stains the whiteness of the tall planes with its incredible magenta.

1926, Vita Sackville-West, Passenger to Teheran, London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf, Chapter V, II:

Cercis siliquastrum
Cercis siliquastrum#Translingual

A small deciduous tree, Cercis siliquastrum, noted for its prolific display of deep-pink flowers in spring.


scrog

en-noun

scrog (countable and uncountable, plural scrogs)

Compare scrag, or Scottish Gaelic sgrogag (“anything shriveled”), from sgrag (“to compress, shrivel”).

cog

(Scotland, countable) The crab-apple tree.


wax apple

Syzygium samarangense
Syzygium samarangense#Translingual

a tropical plant, Syzygium samarangense, bearing an edible fruit


snakehead

A showy perennial plant, Chelone glabra, found in North American marshlands; the turtlehead


cowbane

en-noun

cowbane (usually uncountable, plural cowbanes)

Cicuta virosa
Cicuta virosa#Translingual

Cicuta virosa, type species of this genus.


Orin

A male given name from Irish of obscure origin, possibly a variant of Oren or Oran.


ngaio

An evergreen tree of species Myoporum laetum, native to New Zealand.


honey locust

Gleditsia triacanthos
Gleditsia triacanthos#Translingual

A North American deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.

thornless honey locust

subspecies, varieties, forms of Gleditsia triacanthos


mayflower

Any of several plants that flower in May - especially the hawthorn (in Britain) and the trailing arbutus (in the US).

五月花

plant that flowers in May — see also hawthorn, trailing arbutus


guayaba

Etymology tree
Taíno *wayababor.
Spanish guayababor.
English guayaba
From Spanish guayaba, from Taíno *wayaba. Doublet of guava, by which it has been largely displaced.


pippin

Probably from Middle English pipin (“a seed”), as being raised from the seed.

Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red.


piñon

en-noun

piñon (countable and uncountable, plural piñons or piñones)

They planted a few piñons.

The hills were covered with clusters of piñon.

On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.

1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:

Anglos call it a “kiva fireplace” and put several in every Santa Fe style building, carefully burning piñon firewood upright in the approved local manner.

1994, Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 146:

(uncountable, countable) Any of several species of North American pines in Pinus subsect. Cembroides that bear edible seeds (pine nuts), especially Pinus edulis; the nut pine.


zebrawood

zebrawood (countable and uncountable, plural zebrawoods)

Any wood with a figure (grain pattern) like the striping of a zebra, most often wood of the genus Microberlinia.


beefwood

beefwood (countable and uncountable, plural beefwoods)

Any of the Australian trees, of at least three different orders of plants, having timber resembling raw beef.


casuarina

From the genus name, ultimately a derivative of Malay kasuari (“cassowary”), from the resemblance of the leaves to the bird's feathers.

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
[…] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices.

Lower down, in a little reach of the lagoon there grew a clump of casuarinas, those timid isolates that withdraw from other trees, selecting their own privacy, which is for ever whispering secrets up in their feathery fronds, set in motion by the slightest breeze.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 134:

Any of numerous trees, of the genera Casuarina and Allocasuarina, having segmented needle-like leaves; especially the ironwood and beefwood; she-oak.


Chinese juniper

Chinese juniper (plural Chinese junipers)

Juniperus chinensis, a shrub or tree, very variable in shape, reaching 1-20 m tall, native to northeast Asia.


neem

Borrowed from Hindi नीम (nīm) / Urdu نِیم (nīm), from Sanskrit निम्ब (nimba).

He was standing at the gate, rubbing his teeth with a twig broken from a neem tree – which is what many poor people in my country do, Mr Premier, when they want to clean their teeth.

2008, Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger, Atlantic, published 2009, page 108:

Azadirachta indica
Azadirachta indica#Translingual

Azadirachta indica, a large, mostly evergreen tree from India, whose seeds yield neem oil, the insecticide azadirachtin.


epos

From Shasta ip'-haws (“Perideridia spp tubers”).

der

The tuber of any one of several edible species of Perideridia spp.


dwarf birch

Betula nana, a species of birch in the family Betulaceae, native to arctic and cool temperate regions of northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America.


Jupiter's beard

A common name for various plants:
The red valerian, Centranthus ruber

Centranthus ruber
Centranthus ruber#Translingual

(obsolete) Aster linosyris, a European plant with yellow flowers.

The silverbush, Anthyllis barba-jovis, a European shrub with silvery leaves.

1658: Thus […] nature […] somewhat after this manner hath ordered the bush in Jupiters''' beard, or houseleek; which old superstition set on the tops of houses, as a defensative against lightening, and thunder. — Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 181)

The common houseleek, Sempervivum tectorum.

Sempervivum tectorum
Sempervivum tectorum#Translingual

A white-edged fungus, Hyphodontia barba-jovis.


cat tree

A structure of platforms and scratching posts designed in which for a cat to play.


Hermann

From the German and Jewish surname, from Hermann. Compare Harman, Herman.

Gasconade County
Gasconade County#English

A city, the county seat of Gasconade County, Missouri, United States.


cow parsley

For the trip over the grass-covered sleepers and between the cow-parsley and briars, an open wagon was added to the usual combination of locomotive and coach, for the benefit of those who wanted to take photographs.

1954 April, A. R. G. Hawkins, “The Easingwold Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:

Anthriscus sylvestris
Anthriscus sylvestris#Translingual

Anthriscus sylvestris, a weedy biennial umbellifer native to the Old World.


tipu

A tipu tree serves as an umbrella, while an Indonesian door on the wall carries the ethnic motif and an iron table and chairs keep it modern.

2003 October, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 48, number 10, page 54:

A South American tree, Tipuana tipu, which is grown as an ornamental in mild-winter climates.


hakea

He […] knew that its beak must be powerful enough to crush a pine nut or hakea pod.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 299:

A shrub of the genus Hakea, of Australia.


elemi

en-noun

elemi (countable and uncountable, plural elemis)

A tree, Canarium luzonicum, native to the Philippines.


pinto bean

From Spanish pinto (“painted”), named for its mottled skin.

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

(US, usually in the plural) Any bean of several varieties of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), common in the US and Mexico.


deodar

Borrowed from colloquial Hindustani دیودار (dyodār) / देओदार (deodār), from دیودار (dyodār) / देवदार (devdār), from Sanskrit देवदारु (deva-dāru, literally “divine tree”).

der

There were beautifully arranged tea-tables under the deodars at Annandale, where the Grand Stand is now; […]

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Cupid’s Arrows”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., →OCLC, page 56:

Cedrus deodara, a type of cedar tree native to the western Himalayas.


immortelle

The land between the road and the gully widened; the gully grew shallower. Beyond it Mr Biswas saw the tall immortelles and their red and yellow flowers. And then the untrodden road blazed with the flowers.

1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 3:

Any of various trees of the genus Erythrina.


ash tree

A tree of the genus Fraxinus, with compound leaves and a tough, flexible wood.


ebene

A psychoactive material, variously described as obtained from plants of either the genus Virola or of Anadenanthera peregrina, used ritually as snuff by the Yanomamo people of South America.


medick

en-noun

medick (usually uncountable, plural medicks)

From Middle English medike, from Latin mēdica, from Ancient Greek μηδίκη (mēdíkē), short for Μηδικὴ πόα (Mēdikḕ póa, “Median grass”); so called because medick was imported from Media to Greece during the Greco-Persian Wars.

Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.


moneywort

Moneywort is singular good to stay all fluxes in man or woman, whether they be lasks, bloody fluxes, the flowing of women's courses, bleedings inwardly or outwardly, and the weakness of the stomach that is given to casting.

1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 193:

Lysimachia nummularia
Lysimachia nummularia#Translingual

creeping Jenny, creeping Charlie, herb twopence

A prostrate perennial of species, Lysimachia nummularia, native to Europe, having yellow flowers.

Any plant of genus Alysicarpus, of Old World tropics and subtropics.

coastal waterhyssop, Indian pennywort (Bacopa monnieri).


pudina

A form of mint, Mentha arvensis, found in parts of India and Pakistan and used in tea and cooking.


pulegone

(organic chemistry) A monoterpenoid ketone, found in pennyroyal, that is toxic to dogs and cats


bunya

From Yagara bunya bunya, Gabi bunyi, Wakawaka bunyi.

The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya, — a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.

1887, Maturin Murray Ballou, Under the Southern Cross:

Her three favourite bunyah-bunyah nut trees were destroyed last year to make way for more grazing land for sheep and other animals whose cloven hooves destroyed the delicate topsoil and laid bare the earth.

1993, Philip McLaren, Sweet Water…Stolen Land, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 142

Bunya nuts, which come from a conifer in the genus Araucaria, are an example of a plant that fruited so heavily that large stores were set aside.

2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 150:

The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.


terebinth

From Middle English therebynte, from Old French terebinthe, from Latin terebinthus, from Ancient Greek τερέβινθος (terébinthos), from Pre-Greek.

Pistacia terebinthus
Pistacia terebinthus#Translingual

A Mediterranean tree (Pistacia terebinthus and, possibly, Pistacia palaestina)


danewort

danewort (countable and uncountable, plural daneworts)

From Dane + wort, since it was traditionally believed to grow on battlegrounds of the Danes.

Sambucus ebulus
Sambucus ebulus#Translingual

A European dwarf version of the elder, Sambucus ebulus, that has a bad smell


winterberry

From winter + berry; from the berries' persistence throughout the winter.

Ilex verticillata
Ilex verticillata#Translingual

A species of holly native to the United States and Canada and producing red berries, Ilex verticillata.


weigela

"It's wonderful. Those cinerarias are really show pieces. And what is that lovely tall flower - the rose-pink one?" "That's a Weigela, that is, Amabilis variegata."

1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 14:

(botany) Any plant of the genus Weigela.


matki

(India) The plant Vigna aconitifolia, moth bean.


Sichuan pepper

Sichuan pepper (usually uncountable, plural Sichuan peppers)

(countable, uncountable) The outer pod of the tiny fruit of a number of species in the genus Zanthoxylum widely grown and consumed in Asia as a spice. Not closely related to black pepper or to chilli peppers.


bog bilberry

Vaccinium uliginosum
Vaccinium uliginosum#Translingual

A shrub native of the cool temperate areas of northern hemisphere, Vaccinium uliginosum, and the berry of that shrub.


northern bilberry

northern bilberry (plural northern bilberries)


lingonberry

From Swedish lingon (“cowberry, lingonberry”) + berry.

af

Vaccinium vitis-idaea
Vaccinium vitis-idaea#Translingual

A berry-bearing shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.


pine tree

From Middle English pine tre, pynetre, pyne tree, pyn-tree, pintreow, from Old English pīntrēow (“pine tree”), also as pīnbēam (“pine tree”, literally “pine-beam”), equivalent to pine + tree. Compare West Frisian pynbeam (“pinetree”), Dutch pijnboom (“pine tree”).


bibble

en-verb

bibble (third-person singular simple present bibbles, present participle bibbling, simple past and past participle bibbled)

bibbles (present singular third-person)
bibbling (participle present)
bibbled (participle past)
bibbled (past)

From Middle English bibben (whence bib; see there for more) + -le.


zaatar

From Arabic زَعْتَر (zaʕtar), صَعْتَر (ṣaʕtar, “wild thyme; condiment made from this herb”), probably from Classical Syriac ܨܬܪܐ (ṣāṯrā), related to Hebrew צַתְרָה (ṣátrā).

cog

Hebrew צַתְרָה (ṣátrā)

Origanum syriacum
Origanum syriacum#Translingual

A particular herb, similar in flavor to thyme or oregano, used in Middle Eastern cuisine (Origanum syriacum).

A Middle Eastern seasoning, having this herb or a mixture of herbs as the main ingredient, with sumac (or other tart-flavored equivalent) and sesame seeds.


japonica

From New Latin japonica, the species name.

The isograms were typical of differences between two subspecies but also of those between different lines of japonicas or indicas.

1986, Rice Genetics: Proceedings of the International Rice Genetics Symposium, 27-31 May 1985, International Rice Research Institute:

Any of several plants originally native to Japan.


French bean

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-French bean.wav

A haricot bean or kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).


coronilla

/ˌkɔɹəˈnɪlə/

(botany) Any of the genus Coronilla of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.


ceiba

Ceiba pentandra
Ceiba pentandra#Translingual

Any tree of the genus Ceiba, the best-known of which is Ceiba pentandra.


Indian paintbrush

Asclepias tuberosa
Asclepias tuberosa#Translingual

Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed), a milkweed of eastern North America.


rowanberry

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-rowanberry.wav

Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia#Translingual

The small spherical fruits of the rowan or European rowan (Sorbus aucuparia), a species of rowan (Sorbus subg. Sorbus), native to most of Europe except for the far south, and northern Asia; the fruits are bitter and inedible if uncooked, but may be used in the making of jellies and jams.


teaberry

Gaultheria procumbens
Gaultheria procumbens#Translingual

A berry which is the fruit of a small shrub native to northeastern North America, Gaultheria procumbens (eastern teaberry, American wintergreen, boxberry, checkerberry).

lamosalali

shrub Gaultheria procumbens and its berry


checkerberry

From the chequer tree, which has fruits of a similar appearance.


boxberry

A teaberry bush (Gaultheria procumbens).


petit pois

Borrowed from French petit pois (literally “little pea”).


coralberry

en-noun

coralberry (countable and uncountable, plural coralberries)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-coralberry.wav

American winterberry
American winterberry

American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.


farkleberry

farkleberry (countable and uncountable, plural farkleberries)

(uncountable) A species of Vaccinium (Vaccinium arboreum) native to the southeastern United States, from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri, and south to Florida and eastern Texas, and taking the form of a shrub (rarely a small tree) growing to 3-5 m (rarely 9 m) tall.


mukula

Borrowed from various Bantu languages, where the mu- or m- represents the noun class prefix.

(Zambia, Malawi) Transvaal teak, the timber tree Pterocarpus angolensis, or its substitute of comparable properties Pterocarpus tinctorius syn. Pterocarpus chrysothrix


marula

From Tswana morula (“marula tree”), or from a closely related language.

They were between two marula trees.

2019, Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Hamish Hamilton, page 87:

A medium-sized dioecious tree, Sclerocarya birrea, indigenous to Southern Africa and West Africa.


crataegus

From Ancient Greek κράταιγος (krátaigos, “Crataegus heldreichii”).

der

Any plant of the genus Crataegus, the hawthorns.


bunchberry

Cornus canadensis
Cornus canadensis#Translingual

Either of two species of dwarf dogwoods:

Cornus canadensis - Canadian bunchberry or eastern bunchberry.


candleberry

From candle + berry: the waxy coating on the fruits of several species was traditionally used to make candles.

Any of the plants in the genus Myrica, containing about 35-50 species of small trees and shrubs in the family Myricaceae, order Fagales, with a wide distribution, including Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.


opopanax

en-noun

opopanax (countable and uncountable, plural opopanaxes)

Borrowed from Latin opopanax, from Hellenistic Greek ὀποπάναξ (opopánax), from Ancient Greek ὀπός (opós, “vegetable juice”) + πάναξ (pánax, “any of several plants believed to have medicinal benefits”).

der

(obsolete) A gum resin obtained from the root of Opopanax chironium, formerly used in medicine.

جَاوَشِير

gum from the root of Opopanax chironium or what is equal

they were hit by a strong polyaromatic gust [...] which included alcohol fumes, tobacco and hemp-smoke, a spectrum of inexpensive scent in which opopanax and vervain figured prominently

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 450:

A perfume made from the gum resin of various trees.

Vachellia farnesiana
Vachellia farnesiana#Translingual

The popinac or opopanax tree (Acacia farnesiana, syn. Vachellia farnesiana), an acacia of America.


vervain

en-noun

vervain (countable and uncountable, plural vervains)

From Middle English verveyne, from Old French verveine, from Latin verbēna. Doublet of verbena.

The Yarrow, where-with-all he stops the wound-made gore:
The healing Tutsan then, and Plantan for a sore.
And hard by them againe he holy Vervaine finds,
Which he about his head that hath the Megrim binds.

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 218:

The candlesticks were surrounded by wreaths of vervain[.]

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 147:

There were bunches of wild garlic to keep out evil spirits, foxgloves for healing spells and hemlock and vervain for darker magic.

1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 41:

Verbena officinalis
Verbena officinalis#Translingual

Any herbaceous plant in the genus Verbena especially if used for medicinal purposes, primarily Verbena officinalis, common in Europe and formerly held to have medicinal properties.

رِعْي الْحَمَام

Verbena or specifically Verbena officinalis

purpletop vervain

Verbena bonariensis and for Verbena incompta

aristate bastard vervain (Stachytarpheta aristata, also Verbena aristata, Zappania aristata, heterotypic synonym of Stachytarpheta orubica

narrow-leaved bastard vervain

of Stachytarpheta indica or Verbena simplex

germander-leaved vervain

now Glandularia peruviana, once Verbena chamaedrifolia


diviner's sage

The psychoactive plant Salvia divinorum.


thorn apple

Cognate with Dutch doornappel and French pomme épineuse.

манг

any of several species of plants belonging to the genus Datura

Any of several species of plants bearing thorns and apple-like fruit:

Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium), an annual plant having white flowers and prickly capsules.

Datura stramonium
Datura stramonium#Translingual

Solanum incanum, native to Africa and Asia


kapia

The fossil resin of the kauri tree of New Zealand.


pear tree

/ˌpɛə ˈtɹiː/

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From Middle English peretre, pertre, pere tre; equivalent to pear + tree.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree

1780, unknown author, Twelve Days of Christmas:

A tree of the genus Pyrus, which bears the pears as fruits.


jacaranda

From Portuguese jacarandá, from Old Tupi îacaranda.

They passed slowly under the jacaranda trees beginning to bloom lavender over their heads.

2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 147:

Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers. In horticultural use refers specifically to Jacaranda mimosifolia.

A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.


psyllium

psyllium (usually uncountable, plural psylliums)

From Latin psyllium, from Ancient Greek ψύλλιον (psúllion, “fleawort”), from ψύλλα (psúlla, “flea”) + -ιον (-ion, forming neuter diminutives).

der

Any of several plants of Plantago subg. Psyllium.

ܙܪܱܥ ܩܱܛܘܿܢܳܐ m or ܙܪܱܥ ܩܷܛܘܿܢܳܐ

zəraʿ qaṭṭōnā

its seeds and occasionally the plant being Flohsamen

The seed husk of such plants, especially as a commercial dietary supplement used for mucilage and as a mild laxative.

psyllium

psyllium seed husk, as a dietary supplement


quassin

en-noun

quassin (countable and uncountable, plural quassins)

traditional Chinese medicine
traditional Chinese medicine

(organic chemistry) A very bitter triterpenoid lactone, extracted as white crystals from the quassia tree, used in traditional Chinese medicine


quassia

Any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers.

квасия

any of several tropic trees, of the genus Quassia, having scarlet flowers

The bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark.

kuwasya

the bitter substance quassin extracted from its bark


deadnettle

Any plant of a species in genus Lamium, which closely resembles the nettle, but does not possess stinging hairs.


water chestnut

water chestnut (countable and uncountable, plural water chestnuts)

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Chinese water chestnut
Chinese water chestnut

Eleocharis dulcis
Eleocharis dulcis#Translingual

(uncountable) Chinese water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis), grown for its edible corm, used in Asian cooking.


solah

solah (countable and uncountable, plural solahs)

he descended in a new khaki suit—tight fitting—of a delicate olive-green; a peacock-blue tie, white collar, and a snowy white solah helmet.

1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio, published 2005, page 93:

Alternative form of shola (“the plant Aeschynomene aspera”)


chinaberry

(US) Actaea rubra, a poisonous herbaceous flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, native to North America.


black alder

black alder (countable and uncountable, plural black alders)

Alnus glutinosa
Alnus glutinosa#Translingual

(countable, uncountable) A tree (Alnus glutinosa), of many practical uses, growing in moist conditions in Europe.

Ilex verticillata
Ilex verticillata#Translingual

American winterberry, Ilex verticillata.


common alder

common alder (countable and uncountable, plural common alders)

A tree native to much of Europe and neighboring Africa and Asia (Alnus glutinosa).


grey alder

A tree in the genus Alnus, native to North America and Europe; Alnus incana.


green alder

A tree in the genus Alnus; Alnus viridis.


noni

noni (countable and uncountable, plural nonis)

Morinda citrifolia
Morinda citrifolia#Translingual

The Polynesian fruit tree Morinda citrifolia.

I'm wondering if the claims you hear about the so-called miracle antioxidants – including goji, açai and noni – are true.

2009 August 20, The You Docs, “Are antioxidants worth the cash?”, in Toronto Star:

The fruit of Morinda citrifolia, or a juice made from this fruit that is purported to have healthful qualities


rimu

1928, Leonard Cockayne, The Vegetation of New Zealand, 2011 digitally printed edition, Cambridge University Press, page 164,
In the Western District, at the present time, there is a great deal of rimu forest (Fig. 38) and the rimu is particularly tall, but not of excessive girth.

Leaving the kayaks at Onetahuti Beach, Maori for “to run along the sand,” we amble along the beach before climbing over a lush headland, dense with kawa kawa trees, rimu pine, silver ferns and flowering tea-trees, to view the sweeping beach in front of the Awaroa estuary.

2009 January 31, Susan Gough Henly, “Paddling in New Zealand’s nirvana”, in Toronto Star:

2012, Stephen J. Simpson, David Raubenheimer, The Nature of Nutrition, Princeton University Press, page 164,
A reliable indicator of whether in a given year the birds will breed is the abundance of fruits of podocarp trees such as rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum), which are the principal food used by females for rearing the young.

A large evergreen conifer native to New Zealand, Dacrydium cupressinum.


crassula

From the genus name, translingual Crassula f.

(botany) Any plant of the genus Crassula, often succulents native to southern Africa.


chokeberry

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From choke + berry, describing the astringency of the fruits, which are inedible when raw.

Either of two species in Aronia, formerly and sometimes in Photinia, deciduous shrubs, native to Russia and eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.


jeera

The vegetarian menu had [...] pizza speckled with jeera.

2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 148:


samphire

samphire (countable and uncountable, plural samphires)

Originally sampiere, from French Saint Pierre, the patron saint of fishermen who often harvested the plant.

One of several salt-tolerant plants, some edible

Plants of genus Salicornia (syn. Salicornia)

Marsh samphire, glasswort, pickleweed (Salicornia europaea), a plant once burned to produce ash used to make soda glass.

Crithmum maritimum
Crithmum maritimum#Translingual


thistle sage

A North American herb, Salvia carduacea, the seeds of which were once a staple food similar to chia


boojum

Fouquieria columnaris
Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark
boojum

Nonsense word from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll.

(countable) A species of tree (Fouquieria columnaris) native to Baja California, Mexico.


ribbonwood

ribbonwood (countable and uncountable, plural ribbonwoods)

Any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus

especially, North Island lacebark (Hoheria populnea)

Redshanks, ribbon bush, a plant of species Adenostoma sparsifolium of southern California in the US and northern Baja California in Mexico.


matai

Constructed from the native timbers rimu, kauri, or matai, the interior has been refurbished in sympathy with the era of the home. The five bedrooms are individually designed, all with private balconies or verandahs.

2008, “The Peppertree”, in Friars Guide to New Zealand Accommodation for the Discerning Traveller 2009, Auckland: Hodder Moa, page 150:

Prumnopitys taxifolia
Prumnopitys taxifolia#Translingual

A coniferous tree, Prumnopitys taxifolia, endemic to New Zealand.


ailanthus

/ˌeɪˈlænθəs/

/ˌeɪˈlænθəsɪz/

From New Latin Ailanthus, from Ambonese Malay ai lanto (“tree (of) heaven”).

ailant

deciduous Asiatic tree of the genus Ailanthus

The thick, furry twigs of ailanthus suckers leave her fingers stinking of coffee and peanut butter.

2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 173:

Any of several deciduous Asiatic trees of the genus Ailanthus, including the tree of heaven.

Ailanthus altissima
Ailanthus altissima#Translingual


ajwain

en-noun

ajwain (countable and uncountable, plural ajwains)

Trachyspermum ammi
Trachyspermum ammi#Translingual

A plant in the family Apiaceae (Trachyspermum ammi), and its seed-like fruit, which is used (especially in South Asian cooking) for its thyme-like flavor.


alumroot

Any of several perennial herbs, of the genus Heuchera, native to North America.

Flowering plants of genus Geranium, also called wild geraniums or cranesbills.


amole

From Mexican Spanish amole, from Classical Nahuatl ahmōlli.

Any of various parts of the Agave (or similar) plants, when used as soap.


angostura

angostura (countable and uncountable, plural angosturas)

From the former name of Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela.


Baical skullcap

A herb, Scutellaria baicalensis, used in Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of dysentery and diarrhea etc.


moosewood

moosewood (usually uncountable, plural moosewoods)

Acer pensylvanicum
Acer pensylvanicum#Translingual


Thor's beard

Sempervivum tectorum
Sempervivum tectorum#Translingual

(Germanic paganism) The plant houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum), as used in Heathenry.


Rambo

* The name "Rambo" is of unknown origin. It can be dated back to the 17th-century Swedish immigrant Peter Gunnarsson Rambo. According to folk legend it is derived from the mountain Ramberget ("Raven’s Hill") in Gothenburg, whence the Swedish immigrants to Delaware originated in the 17th century.
* "Rambo" is also the name of an old farm in Vestfold county, Norway ("Rambøe" 1664, "Ramboe" 1723) - and about 65 people in Norway have Rambo as a family name. The Old Norse form of the name might have been *Hrafnabú. The first element is then the genitive plurals of hrafn m. 'raven', and the last element is bú n. 'farm'. The name was brought to the US by Norwegian settlers.
* "Rambo" became widely known after John Rambo, a fictional Vietnam War veteran and protagonist of the film series Rambo.
See also Japanese 乱暴 (rambō, “rude; violent; rough; reckless”).

ncog

(figuratively) One who is reckless, disregards orders, uses violence to solve all problems, and bravely charges headlong into the teeth of the enemy.


dogberry

See dogwood and berry. Compare also dog rose. Compare German Hundbeere (“bittersweet”), Ancient Greek κυνόσβατος (kunósbatos, “evergreen rose”), Lithuanian šùnobelė (“buckthorn”), Italian mela canina (“mandrake”).


mâche

Valerianella locusta
Valerianella locusta#Translingual

Valerianella locusta, a small dicot annual plant of the family Caprifoliaceae often cultivated as a salad green or herb.


sugarer

Someone who sugars foods, who adds sugar to food products.

March 2004, Naples News - Teen has even higher goals for acclaimed maple syrup
Fisk, a fifth-generation sugarer and high school sophomore, is one of more than 900 syrup producers in the state, many of whom tap only a handful of trees and produce just enough for their families.

If you are such a frustrated maple sugarer, I have a solution to offer whereby you can sugar this spring with no physical effort...

1990, Noel Perrin, First Person Rural: Essays of a Sometime Farmer, →ISBN, page 23:


lindera

(botany) Any plant of the genus Lindera, flowering shrubs and trees.


cobnut

From earlier cobylle nut; see cobble, nut.

filbert

usually the American hazel, Corylus americana or Corylus maxima, which is common in Oregon


cyprine

en-adj

cyprine (comparative more cyprine, superlative most cyprine)

more cyprine (comparative)
most cyprine (superlative)

(botany) Of or pertaining to the cypress.


cyprine

en-noun

cyprine (countable and uncountable, plural cyprines)

The fibrous copper-bearing variety cyprine was first observed by the author in 1905 in a small dump of unknown origin at the mouth of the Parker shaft.

1935, Charles Palache, The Minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey, page 95:

A bright blue variety of idocrase is known as cyprine and is so-called after Cyprus, which was the ancient source copper.

1949, The Gemmologist - Volume 18, page 104:

The shape of the "cyprine" optical spectrum is typical of minerals containing Cu²⁺ ions (Platonov, 1976).

1992, Krystyna Dyrek, Alexej N. Platonov, Zbigniew Sojka, Witold Żabiński, “Optical absorption and EPR study of Cu²⁺ ions in vesuvianite ("cyprine") from Sauland, Telemark , Norway”, in European Journal of Mineralogy, volume 5, page 1285:

A variety of tourmaline that contains copper, which gives it a unique blue color, also called cuprian elbaite.


cyprine

From Latin cyprīnus (“a species of carp”) + -ine.


cyprine

The mountain streams and upper reaches of the rivers are rich in trout, grayling and salmon, while the rivers of the plains abound in cyprine fish such as minnows, carp, huck, etc.

1966, Eugene Fodor, Yugoslavia, page 91:

It contains xenocypridines (Xenocypris), cultrines (Culter and Hemiculterella), cyprines (Cyprinus and Carassius), hypophthalmichthines (Hypophthalmichthys), leuciscines (Leuciscus, Mylopharyngodon, and Ctenopharyngodon), and gobionines (Gnathopogon) all of which were extant genera (Liu and Su 1962).

2020, Hiroya Kawanabe, Machiko Nishino, Masayoshi Maehata, Lake Biwa: Interactions between Nature and People, page 46:

A fish from the taxonomic family Cyprinidae.


cyprine

Ultimately from Ancient Greek κύπρις (kúpris), an epithet of Aphrodite, + -ine.

Older women who no longer menstruate, excited by the younger women's caresses, secrete enough cyprine to paint their bodies.

1977, Heresies - Volume 1, Issues 1-4, page 98:

No one is unaware that cyprine is different in taste depending upon the climate where it is produced and the diet of its producer.

1979, Monique Wittig, Sande Zeig, Lesbian Peoples, page 37:

No phallus seeks a sheath in this "mere hole," no Freudian or Lacanian child passes out through the root fibres and tangled grasses to become the symbolic phallus his deprived mother lacks. Instead, what is "fretilizing," fecundating, what leaves its damp stain from Regen't Park down to Euston, is the cyprine juice of female sexual pleasure, cyprine juice signalling a pleasure that, in Lacan's terms, is "beyond the phallus" ( 145 ) and supplementary to the biology of reproduction.

1987, John George Moss, Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature, page 96:

In the last line, sweetest soup (in other versions: sweetest sauce); compare in No. 242, "John Harloson's Saltpeter," on version note A, on the unusualness in English-language folksong or folklore of any appreciative reference, as here, to the female vaginal liquor, or cyprine.

1992, Vance Randolph, Blow the Candle Out, page 663:

vaginal secretions that result from sexual arousal.


souring

en-noun

souring (countable and uncountable, plural sourings)

The process by which fabric is soured, washing out the lime by means of acid.


musclewood

musclewood (countable and uncountable, plural musclewoods)

From muscle (“from the sinewy appearance of the trunk and branches”) + wood.

compound

Carpinus caroliniana
Carpinus caroliniana#Translingual

Carpinus caroliniana, a deciduous tree of eastern North America.


blue beech

en-noun

blue beech (countable and uncountable, plural blue beeches)

blue (from the color of the bark) + beech (from the smooth bark or the form of the leaves)


American hornbeam

American hornbeam (countable and uncountable, plural American hornbeams)

American + hornbeam (from the hardness of its wood)


European hornbeam

European hornbeam (plural European hornbeams)

Carpinus betulus
Carpinus betulus#Translingual

Carpinus betulus, a deciduous tree with hard wood native to many parts of Europe.


common hornbeam

common hornbeam (plural common hornbeams)

Carpinus betulus; a deciduous tree with hard wood, native to many parts of Europe.


Key lime

From Keys (“the Florida Keys”), from key (“an island in a chain of islands”), variant of cay, from Spanish cayo.

A small yellow (when ripe, usually sold green) lime, of hybrid Citrus × aurantiifolia, especially those from southern Florida.


Chinese gooseberry

Chinese gooseberry (plural Chinese gooseberries)

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Chinese, as the tree is native to central and eastern China + gooseberry, from superficial resemblance of the fruit.


horse bean

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So called because of use in feeding horses.


lúcuma

Borrowed from Spanish lúcuma, from Quechua rukma, luqma.


cherry tree

From Middle English cherietree, cheritree, chery-tre, cherytre, chiri tre, chiritre, chyrytree.

Prunus subg. Cerasus
Prunus subg. Cerasus#Translingual

A tree of the subgenus Prunus subg. Cerasus, the members of which are valued agriculturally for their fruit, the cherry, and the wood of the tree, cherrywood, used in woodworking.


creat

Andrographis paniculata
Andrographis paniculata#Translingual

traditional medicine
traditional medicine

Andrographis paniculata, a plant native to the Indian subcontinent and used in the traditional medicine of parts of Asia.


black birch

A tree of the species Betula lenta, with a dark bark resembling a cherry tree's and an aromatic bark and sap used for birch beer.


birch beer

birch beer (countable and uncountable, plural birch beers)

A sweetened, non-alcoholic, sparkling beverage with a wintergreen flavor, traditionally made from the oil of the sweet birch.


pinophyte

(botany) Any gymnosperm (of the division Pinophyta)


morello

May be connected to ἀμαυρός (amaurós, “dark, dim, faint”), compare Polish chmura (“dark cloud, darken”).

A variety of cultivated cherry, Prunus cerasus var. austera, having a dark skin


Dutchman's pipe

Dutchman's pipe (plural Dutchman's pipes)

elegant Dutchman's pipe

Aristolochia littoralis Aristolochia elegans


sterculia

Any of a number of tropical trees and shrubs, of the genus Sterculia, many of which bear commercially important, oil-rich seeds


stringybark

Two of the younger men carried him there on a stretcher of stringybark.

1974, Thea Astley, A Kindness Cup, Text Classics, published 2018, page 54:

Any of a number of Australian eucalyptus trees with fibrous bark, or the wood or bark of such trees.


tornillo

Borrowed from Spanish tornillo (“screw”).

bor+

A small tree, Prosopis pubescens, native to Mexico and parts of the United States that has spirally twisted pods; the screwbean


platan

Borrowed from Latin platanus; later reborrowed from Middle French platane.

Xerxes strange Lydian love, the Platane tree, / Was lov'd for age, none being so large as shee [...].

A double hill ran up his furrowy forks / Beyond the thick-leaved platans of the vale.

1847, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page number, or |part=Prologue, I to VII, or conclusion)”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:


wilga

Geijera parviflora, a small tree or bush found in inland parts of eastern Australia, and grown elsewhere for its drought tolerance and its graceful willow-like weeping form.


mopane

A tree, Colophospermum mopane, native to southern Africa.

mopanie

Colophospermum mopanea, a tree of southern Africa


umbrella pine

The rest of the run is in darkness, past groves of umbrella pines and through rice and maize fields, with glimpses of the Mediterranean on the right, and to the left, the lights of mountain villages; […].

1950 February, “The "Rome Express"”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:


catechu

en-noun

catechu (countable and uncountable, plural catechus)

/ˈkæt.əˌt͡ʃuː/

/ˈkæt.əˌʃuː/

Probably a corruption of the Malay kacu.

The pale catechus are usually sweeter and more pleasant for chewing.

1837, Jonathan Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica: Lecture LXI”, in London Medical Gazette, volume XX, page 107:

A gummy extract of any of several species of Acacieae, but especially Senegalia catechu, produced by boiling the wood of the tree in water and evaporating the resulting liquid.

খৈৰ

a gummy extract of any of several species of Acacieae


beechen

From Middle English bechen, from Old English bēċen (“made of beechwood, beechen”), Proto-West Germanic *bōkīn, equivalent to beech + -en. Cognate with Dutch beuken (“beechen”).

inh

Now withered lay the hemlock-sheaves,
And one by one with sighing sound
Whispering fell the beechen leaves
In the wintry woodland wavering.

1988, J.R.R. Tolkien, Song of Beren and Lúthien:

Consisting or made of the wood or bark of the beech tree.

beuken

consisting, or made, of wood or bark of the beech


desi

There are two types of chickpea, desi (small seeded, angular and coloured) and kabuli (large seeded, ram-shaped and beige coloured). No precise information is available about the division of the 11 million hectares under chickpea between desis and kabulis, but an approximation is that more than 85 per cent of the area is covered with the desis type and the rest with kabuli.

1984, J.R. Witcombe, Genetic Resources and Their Exploitation:

These lighter coloured desis are now generally favoured by most markets as they look fresher, despite the majority of desis still ending up dehulled.

2007, Shyam S. Yadav, Chickpea Breeding and Management, page 568:

A particular variety of cultivated chickpea.


witch hazel

en-noun

witch hazel (countable and uncountable, plural witch hazels)

See Middle English wiche, from Old English wiċe (“wych elm or rowan”), perhaps derived from the root of wīcan (“to give way”). Folk etymology refers to use by witches and other sorcerers of folkish magic using the plant in potions; however, compare German Zaubernuss (“witch hazel”, literally “magic nut”).

cog

Hamamelis virginiana
Hamamelis virginiana#Translingual

(countable) Any of several small deciduous trees, of the genus Hamamelis, having yellow flowers

(US) Hamamelis virginiana (eastern North America)


sainfoin

en-noun

sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]

1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143

A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).


white currant

A deciduous shrub, a less sour and colourless cultivar of Ribes rubrum (red currant), though sometimes named Ribes sativum or Ribes silvestre, and sold as a different fruit.


bearberry

Any of four dwarf shrubs of formerly all members of the genus Arctostaphylos, three now assigned to genus Arctous, which principally grow in arctic and subarctic regions and bear edible berries.

alpine bearberry, mountain bearberry, black bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpinus)


snap bean

Their Sunday dinner always included snap beans cooked with fatback.

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

The unripe or green edible fruit pod of a bean plant such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.


water mint

water mint (countable and uncountable, plural water mints)

A herb in the mint family, Mentha aquatica.


juniper berry

The berrylike female seed cone produced by the various species of junipers.


virgalieu

If "Virgalieu" is the term by which the White Doyenne pear is most generally known, (and this can not be denied) then to adopt the latter will produce just the confusion against which Mr. Eaton protests; and this is really the fact; for not half those who grow this pear will know what you mean, if you call it the White Doyenné.

1861, Peter B. Mead, The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, volume XVI, page 280:

A valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; also called White Doyenne.


red valerian

Centranthus ruber
Centranthus ruber#Translingual

A garden plant, of species Centranthus ruber, native to the Mediterranean region.


wishbone flower

wishbone flower (plural wishbone flowers)

Any flowering plant of genus Torenia, especially Torenia fournieri, having a pair of yellow stamens in the form of a wishbone.


benne

From Malay bene, or possibly from Wolof or Eastern Maninkakan.

benne oil; benne seed

Benne (sesame) seeds were secretly brought to America on the slave ships by black women who had used them in their native cooking. Benne seed cookies and candy were made by black cooks in Charleston and other lowcountry South Carolina locations.

2003, Carole Marsh, The Kitchen House: How Yesterday's Black Women Created Today's Most Popular & Famous American Foods!, page 15:

For example, Rosanna Williams recounted that her African-born father would "plant mostly benne and rice." Emma Hunter also remembered that her grandmother planted benne.

2010, Frederick C. Knight, Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650—1850, page 62:

A window on the small-scale world of sesame oil production and benne cake livestock feeding is found in the pages of Thomas Walter Peyre's plantation journal (1834–59) at the South Carolina Historical Society.[…]African Anerican farming of benne can be imputed only by anecdotal reports, yet numerous records attest to benne’s importance in the slave diet. Indeed, a complex benne cookery adapted from African practices was recorded.

2013, David S. Shields, “Chapter 3: Prospecting for Oil”, in John T. Edge, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Ted Ownby, editors, The Larder: Food Studies Methods from the American South, page 65:


hogweed

From hog + weed, so named because of its use as feed for pigs.

An umbelliferous plant, of genus Heracleum, most species of which are phototoxic.

Certain plants from the genera Ambrosia, Erigeron, or Heracleum.


anigre

The tree Pouteria superba and (especially) its wood.


masterwort

masterwort (countable and uncountable, plural masterworts)

Aegopodium podagraria
Aegopodium podagraria#Translingual


milfoil

milfoil (countable and uncountable, plural milfoils)

From Old French milfoil (modern French mille-feuille), from Latin millefolium, from mīlle + folium. Doublet of mille-feuille.

Any plants of the genus Myriophyllum; water milfoil.


bedstraw

bedstraw (countable and uncountable, plural bedstraws)

From Middle English bedstraw, bedstrau, bedde-straw, equivalent to bed + straw.

Castle Lake bedstraw (Galium glabrescens

Okanoga bedstraw (Galium serpenticum subsp. okanoganense

San Jacinto bedstraw (Galium angustifolium subsp. jacinticum

any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers


germander

/d͡ʒɚˈmændɚ/

/d͡ʒəˈmændə/

Late Middle English, from French germandrée, itself from Latin chamaedrys, from Ancient Greek χαμαίδρῡς (khamaídrūs, literally “ground-oak”).

der

Any plant of the genus Teucrium, some with small, pink, white, or pale purple flowers and a small upper lip.


herb bennet

From Middle English herbe-benet, from Old French herbe beneite (“blessed herb”) (because of its medicinal properties).

(dated) The avens (Geum urbanum) or the common avens (Geum aleppicum).


mahonia

Winter-blooming mahonias, or grape hollies, are catching on: Charity has fragrant yellow flowers.

2008 January 24, Anne Raver, “What the Nurseries Like for Spring”, in New York Times:

Any of the genus Mahonia (now often included in Berberis) of evergreen shrubs.


guarri

From Khwe gwarri (which also derived Zulu umgwali).

(South Africa) A shrub or tree, Euclea divinorum; its fruit can be fermented to produce vinegar.


hortensia

From the genus name, New Latin Hortensia, from hortēnsius (“of the garden”), from hortēnsis.


shado beni

Shado beni is similar to cilantro but has a stronger flavor. Look for it in ethnic grocery stores that feature Hispanic or West Indian foods. If not found, it is not a problem—just substitute with cilantro (add a little extra cilantro if you want the stronger flavor you would have gotten with the shado beni).

2011, John Cavazos, Ann Marie Cavazos, “Main Courses and Cooked Sides”, in The Daniel Fast Made Delicious, Lake Mary, Fla.: Siloam, →ISBN, section I (Healthy Eating on the Daniel Fast), page 35:


arrowwood

(US) Any of several species of genus Viburnum of eastern North America and other viburnums that have naturalized in North America.

downy arrowwood

viburnums native to or naturalized in eastern North America


red bean

en-noun

red bean (countable and uncountable, plural red beans)

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Vigna angularis
Vigna angularis#Translingual

(countable) The azuki bean (Vigna angularis), most common in East Asia.

Vigna umbellata
Vigna umbellata#Translingual

(countable) The rice bean (Vigna umbellata).

(countable) Any of various red varieties of the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), including the kidney bean, Honduran red bean, and Salvadoran red bean.

China’s dragon-boat festival ensures fishermen’s safety through consumption of meat, lotus seed (Nelumbo spp., Nelumbonaceae), date, water chestnut (Trapa spp., Trapaceae), and zongzi, which are glutinous-rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves (Poaceae) and filled with red bean (Luard 2001).

2009, Nina Lilian Etkin, Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Foods and Beverages that Mediate Sociability, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 135:

Freshly made red bean treats hot from the griddle are popular here: crispy-hot snapper-shaped taiyaki cakes filled with red bean; dorayaki (red bean sandwiched between two hand-held, pancake-esque cakes); the famous ningyōyaki (doll-shaped bite-sized red bean cakes traditional to the old neighbourhood Asakusa).

2018, Eat Like a Local TOKYO, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 26:

Griselda returns, holding a bag full of wasabi peas and anpans. She knows I like the ones filled with custard rather than red bean, so I’m grateful she got my favorites.

2018, Peter Tieryas, Mecha Samurai Empire, New York, N.Y.: Ace, →ISBN:

In the book, the protagonist is a Korean American girl, and a lot of her favorite things—from her love of walnut cakes filled with red bean to the Korean drama Boys Over Flowers—were my favorite things growing up as well.

2020, Erin Yun, Pippa Park Raises Her Game, New York, N.Y.: Fabled Films LLC, published 2021, →ISBN:

Buns filled with sweet custard, buns filled with red bean, savory buns with spinach and minced meat, sticky rice and pork belly wrapped in bamboo leaves and tied with string.

2022, Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay, New York, N.Y.: Random House, published 2023, →ISBN, page 164:

Manju originated from Chinese mantou, that deep fried bread thing you dip in condensed milk that you can get in Binondo. But this is Japanese. And the Japanese version is made with red bean instead of chocolate or custard.

2022, Carla de Guzman, Some Bali to Love, Midnight Books:

(uncountable) A paste made of azuki beans.


agarwood

agarwood (countable and uncountable, plural agarwoods)

From agar + wood (agar ultimately from Dravidian, probably Tamil அகில் (akil)).

Aquilaria malaccensis
Aquilaria malaccensis#Translingual

Heartwood from trees of genus Aquilaria, especially Aquilaria malaccensis (syn. A. agallocha), infected with mold (Phialophora parasitica), which produce an aromatic resin in response to this infestation.


juniper bush

a bush, shrub, or smaller tree of any of the species within the genus Juniperus.


sap green

Rhamnus cathartica
Rhamnus cathartica#Translingual

A dull light green pigment prepared from the juice of the ripe berries of the Rhamnus cathartica, or buckthorn. It is used especially by water-color artists.


witchweed

witchweed (countable and uncountable, plural witchweeds)

1968, (U.S.) National Research Council: Committee on Plant and Animal Pests: Subcommittee on Weeds, Principles of Plant and Animal Pest Control, Volume 2: Weed Control, National Academy of Sciences Publication 1597, page 43,
The witchweed-suppression program is a classic example of a systems approach to weed management and represents one of the finest organized efforts in the United States to eradicate a weed.

A number of witchweed species parasitize important economic plants such as corn, sugarcane, rice, tobacco, and some small grains.

1969, George Agrios, Plant Pathology, page 385:

The Asian and African witchweed (Striga asiatica) grows parasitically on the roots of members of the Poaceae, especially maize and sorghum causing significant crop losses, but also on rice, millet, sugar cane and grasses.

2001, Robert E. Eplee, “Case Study 2.10 Co-ordination of Witchweed Eradication in the USA”, in Rüdiger Wittenberg, Matthew J. W. Cock, editors, Invasive Alien Species: A Toolkit of Best Prevention and Management Practices, page 36:

Any of several flowering plants of the genus Striga, from Africa and Asia, some of which are parasitic to crops.


kajatenhout

(South Africa) The tree Pterocarpus angolensis (bloodwood).


wahoo

Perhaps from Wahoo, an obsolete spelling of Oahu, where the fish is found.

Acanthocybium solandri, a tropical and subtropical game fish.


Christmas berry

Christmas berry (plural Christmas berries)

Synonym of toyon (“plant or its berry”) (Photinia arbutifolia, syn. Heteromeles arbutifolia)


California holly

toyon (Photinia arbutifolia, syn. Heteromeles arbutifolia)


tarata

Synonym of lemonwood (“the tree Pittosporum eugenioides”)


goutweed

From gout + weed, from having formerly been used to treat gout.


shittah

Hebrew שִׁטָּה, usually expressed in the irregular plural שִׁטִּים

uder

Hebrew שִׁטָּה

A tree said in the Bible to have furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; now believed to have been red acacia, of species Vachellia seyal (formerly Acacia seyal).


Kentucky coffeetree

en-noun

Kentucky coffeetree (plural Kentucky coffeetrees)

A widely-dispersed but rare tree, Gymnocladus dioicus, native to the midwest of North America.


copper beech

A tall type of beech, Fagus sylvatica atropurpurea, with smooth bark and reddish-brown to purple leaves.


kermes oak

Quercus coccifera
Quercus coccifera#Translingual

An oak, Quercus coccifera, native to the western Mediterranean region and growing 1-6 meters tall.


retama

(botany) Any of the genus Retama of flowering bushes.


galbanum

galbanum (countable and uncountable, plural galbanums)

From Latin galbanum (“galbanum”), from Ancient Greek χαλβάνη (khalbánē, “galbanum”).

der

And the Lord said to Moses: Take unto thee spices, stacte, and onycha, galbanum of sweet savour, and the clearest frankincense, all shall be of equal weight.

These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone; smyris, ivory, bones, ebontree, cedar, cypress, pitch, softer rosin, camphire, galbanum, ammoniac, storax, benzoin, loadstone, asphaltum.

1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

A bitter, aromatic resin or gum, extracted from plants of the genus Ferula, that resembles assafoetida and has been used in incense and in aromatherapy


yari-yari

A type of wood from certain species of trees from the Caribbean in the Annonaceae family.


yarran

Acacia homalophylla, a species of acacia tree found commonly in Australia.


yellow birch

A birch tree of species Betula alleghaniensis, native to cool-temperate eastern North America.


yellow pine

en-noun

yellow pine (countable and uncountable, plural yellow pines)

Any of various pine trees with wood of a yellow color.


yellow rattle

A flowering plant native to Eurasia, Rhinanthus minor.


dubbeltjie

Borrowed from Afrikaans dubbeltjie, duwweltjie.

Tribulus terrestris
Tribulus terrestris#Translingual

(South Africa) Tribulus terrestris, a species of plant known for its sharp thorns.


poison sumac

Toxicodendron vernix
Toxicodendron vernix#Translingual

A woody shrub or small tree, all parts of which cause irritation to humans; Toxicodendron vernix, formerly Rhus vernix.


citrangequat

/ˈsɪtɹənd͡ʒˌkwɑːt/

Blend of citrange + kumquat — since citrange is itself a blend of citrus and orange, this is a triple blend.

A trigenic hybrid cross of two types of orange and a kumquat (Citrus × georgiana).


willowherb

Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.

1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Piper at the Gates”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:

And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:

Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.

1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):

Any of several flowering plants in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae.


citrange

Citrus × insitorum, a hybrid of the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange.


sweet orange

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Citrus sinensis
Citrus sinensis#Translingual

Citrus sinensis, a species of citrus fruit, commonly known as the orange.


cow-wheat

cow-wheat (countable and uncountable, plural cow-wheats)

Any of several flowering plants in the genus Melampyrum.


papilionaceous

en-adj

papilionaceous (comparative more papilionaceous, superlative most papilionaceous)

more papilionaceous (comparative)
most papilionaceous (superlative)

From New Latin papilionaceus (from Latin pāpiliō (“butterfly”)) + -ous. In scientific sense, after Papilionaceae (family name).

[T]he broad road is lined with wild bushes and tangled shrubs lavishly decked with brilliant blossoms: the lentisk, so covered with yellow, papilionaceous flowers [translating Schmetterlingsblumen] that not a green leaf is visible…

1962, JW Goethe, translated by WH Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, Italian Journey, Penguin, published 1970, page 261:

(botany) Having a corolla in the form of a butterfly, with prominent wing-like petals; (generally) pertaining to the Faboidea (Papilionoidea) family of plants.


mallee

Probably borrowed from Wemba-Wemba mali; compare Woiwurrung mali.

mallee ringneck

Australian ringneck; Barnardius zonarius

The ecology of much Western Australian mallee is poorly understood, so only a few general points can be made here. Mallee dominated by eucalypts including Eucalyptus redunca and E. eremophilia is mapped as widespread (Beard, 1975) on areas of brown calcareous earths north of Esperance (Northcote et al., 1967).

1994, R. F. Parsons, “Eucalyptus Scrubs and Shrublands”, in R. H. Groves, editor, Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 301:

Large areas of mallee shrublands are now either reserved specifically for biodiversity conservation or else managed sympathetically. Fire is a prominent feature of the semi-arid lands in general and the mallee shrublands in particular.

2002, Ross A. Bradstock, Janet S. Cohn, “Fire Regimes and Biodiversity in Semi-arid Mallee Ecosystems”, in Ross A. Bradstock, Jann E. Williams, A. Malcolm Gill, editors, Flammable Australia: The Fire Regimes and Biodiversity of a Continent, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 238, column 2:

(Australia) A type of scrubland with low-growing thick eucalypts, characteristic of certain parts of Australia.

Although not totally destitute of animal life, in the summer season very few living creatures, beyond innumerable tribes of insects, are to be found within the Mallee.

1867 December, A. M., “Lost in the Mallee”, in The Colonial Monthly; an Australian Magazine, volume I (New Series), number 4, Melbourne, Vic.: Clarson, Massina, & Co., […]; Sydney: Gibbs, Shallard, & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, page 305:

'They're going to lynch you, Regerson,' Harry told him, grinning. 'You'd better take to the mallee before they come for you.'

1958, E. O. Schlunke, The Village Hampden: Stories, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, →OCLC:

It made no difference that he had also invented several ploughs and a device for grubbing Mallee country or that people had journeyed all the way from Melbourne to inspect them.

1985, Peter Carey, chapter 4, in Illywhacker, London: Faber and Faber, published 2003, →ISBN, page 365:

(Australia) Any semi-desert region of Australia where such scrub is the predominant vegetation.

An immense tract of country in this district is entirely occupied by a "scrub," as it is called in Colonial language, consisting of the mallee plant, Eucalyptus dumosa, the leaves of which at certain seasons become covered with this species of manna, which is known to the natives by the name of Lerp, the l being pronounced like the Italian gl.

1851 January, Thomas Anderson, “On a New Species of Manna from New South Wales. [...] (From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for July, 1849.)”, in Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land, volume I, part III, [Hobart], Tasmania: [Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land]; sold by Walch & Son, […]; Henry Dowling, […], →OCLC, pages 242–243:

The water-yielding Eucalyptus is one of the many species which pass under the name of Eucalyptus Dumosa, extending from the desert tributaries of the Murray, westward, as far as Swan River, constituting those almost impenetrable scrubs called Malleè.

1859, John Cairns, “Art. V.—On the Weir Malleè, a Water-yielding Tree, the Bulrush, and Porcupine Grass of Australia. … [Read before the Institute, 16th June, 1858.]”, in John Macadam, editor, Transactions of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria, volume III, Melbourne, Vic.: Philosophical Institute of Victoria, →OCLC, page 32:

From the mallee and kurrajong trees came a rowdy chatter of parakeets, while queer soughing of air-currents came from the valley top.

1931, Ion L. Idriess, Lasseter's Last Ride, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 187:

It was almost dark by the time we reached a small rocky hill, its boulders bursting with the white plumes of spinifex in flower, and a black fuzz of leafless mallee bush.

1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 104:

(Australia) Any of several low-growing eucalypts characteristic of such scrubland, especially Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus oleosa, and Eucalyptus socialis.

[page 1-4, section 1.3] Of the many variations in form of the Eucalyptus (shrubs, mallees, trees, etc.), virtually all species being tested in the above category are those which exhibit good tree form (e.g., height, straightness of trunk, etc.). […] [page 2-1, section 2.2] Shrubby eucalypts are usually referred to as "mallees" although the term strictly applies to those species which have many stems growing from an enlarged rootstock (lignotuber).

1978 June, Eliseo O. Mariani, Warren A. Wood, Paul C. Kouchoukos, Mary Beth Minton, Marelco, Inc., “Introduction” and “The Eucalypts”, in The Eucalyptus Energy Farm: Feasibility Study and Demonstration: Phase 1: Site and Species Selection (HCP/T2557-01), Washington, D.C.: Division of Solar Technology, Office of Energy Technology, United States Department of Energy, →OCLC, pages 1-4 and 2-1:

Eucalypts with a mallee growth form can also be found in areas wetter than those already considered and where single-stemmed eucalypts predominate. This occurs in a variety of unfavourable habitats, either by normally single-stemmed eucalypts assuming a mallee habit (e.g., E. baxteri) or by the occurrence of distinct wet-country mallees of restricted distribution specific to such habitats.

1994, R. F. Parsons, “Eucalyptus Scrubs and Shrublands”, in R. H. Groves, editor, Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 292:

(botany, Australia) The growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, shared by species of related genera.


mallee

[H]ence the slow progress hitherto made in the cultivation of such produce of the garden as is generally held in estimation by the European portion of the community, left as it generally is, to the simple Hindoo mallee (or gardener,) it is not to be wondered at, that our bazars want what are deemed the more delicate articles of vegetable production for the table; […]

1840, G. T. Frederic Speede, Indian Hand-book of Gardening; Containing Directions for the Management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden, etc. etc. in India: […], Calcutta: W. Thacker & Co. St. Andrew’s Library, →OCLC, page 1:

Prizes were awarded to ten other mallees for best samples of vegetables, fruits and flowers, and last though not least we have to note, that a prize of two rupees was awarded to the mallee of Robert Fulton, Esq., of Sultangunge, for a remarkably fine bunch of grapes, clearly showing that either the soil of Mr. Fulton's garden, the climate of Sultangunge, or the skill of that gentleman's gardener, are highly favorable to the growth, and bringing to maturity of this delicious fruit.

1848, “Report of Exhibitions of Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers and Agricultural Produce, Held at Bhaugulpore, on 11th February and 25th May, 1848. (Communicated by Major [T. E. A.] Napleton, Honorary Secretary Branch Agri-Horticultural Society.)”, in Journal of the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India, volumes VI, part II (Correspondence and Selections), number 3, Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, →OCLC, page 125:

Telegram from Collector of Sylhet to Secretary Colonel Burne, No. 221; dated the 29th November 1871. Every necessary precaution taken to arrest spread of cholera: three camps formed, one for those attacked, one for the convalescents, one for the healthy. I sent down dhobies, sweepers, cooks, and mallees, last to dig trenches for burying the dead, when burning was not possible.

1871 November 29, “Cachar: Further Correspondence on the Subject of the Looshai Raids and the Consequent Hostilities (in Continuation of Paper, No. 398, of 1871)”, in Accounts and Papers: […], volumes X (East India—continued), [London]: […] The House of Commons, […], published 28 May 1872, →OCLC, page 301:

(India, South Asia) Alternative spelling of mali (“a member of a caste in South Asia whose traditional occupation is gardening; hence, any South Asian gardener”).


lousewort

Any of very many semiparasitic flowering plants, of the genus Pedicularis, related to wood betony.


lespedeza

(botany) Any of many leguminous plants of the genus Lespedeza, including bush clover.


feijoa

João da Silva Feijó
Otto Karl Berg
feijoa

/ˈfiːd͡ʒɐʉ.ɐ/

From the New Latin former genus name Feijoa, which was named after Portuguese botanist João da Silva Feijó by the German botanist Otto Karl Berg.

A South American evergreen shrub, Acca sellowiana (syn. Feijoa sellowiana).


sesame leaf

Calque of Korean 깻잎 (kkaennip, “sesame leaf”).


saskatoon

From Cree ᒥᓵᐢᑿᑑᒥᐣ (misaaskwatoomin, “saskatoon berry”), from ᒥᓵᐢᑿᐟ (misaaskwat, “saskatoon shrub”) + ᒥᐣ (min, “berry”).

der

(Canadian Prairies) A shrub inhabiting western North America (Amelanchier alnifolia).


yangmei

Borrowed from Mandarin 楊梅 /杨梅 (yángméi).

The edible crimson fruit of the subtropical tree Myrica rubra.


yumberry

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While yumberries are edging into popular recognition, new antioxidant fruits such as Kakadu plums are in the very initial stages of commercialization.

2008, Prepared Foods, volume 177, numbers 7-12, page 91:

Cranberries, Yumberries & Blackcurrants

2011, Juliette Kellow, Lyndel Costain, Laurence Beeken, The Calorie, Carb and Fat Bible 2011, page 363:

The yangmei, especially in commercial products where it is promoted as a superfruit.


dropwort

From drop + wort, referring to its hanging tubers.


sea holly

sȉkavica

these two forms are Chakavian and also mean Carthamus, Picnomon, Scolymus, Echinops, Dipsacus

Eryngium maritimum
Eryngium maritimum#Translingual

More generally, any of several species of plants in the genus Eryngium.


wineberry

From Middle English wynberie, wynberie (“a grape or some other kind of berry”), from Old English wīnberġe (“grape”, literally “wine-berry”), from Proto-West Germanic *wīnabaʀi, from Proto-Germanic *wīnabasją (“wineberry; grape”), equivalent to wine + berry. Doublet of whimberry (“bilberry”).
Cognate with Dutch wijnbeer, West Frisian wynbei (“grape”), wiemer (“currant”), German Weinbeere (“grape”), Swedish vinbär (“currant”), Icelandic vínber (“grape”), Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌱𐌰𐍃𐌹 (weinabasi, “grape”).

inh

The plant Rubus phoenicolasius, the Japanese wineberry.


firethorn

A plant of the genus Pyracantha; the pyracantha.


waxberry

A bayberry plant or fruit of family Myricaceae, especially species of Myrica, particularly

of species Myrica cerifera (wax myrtle).

Certain snowberry plants and their fruit

of the genus Symphoricarpos (ghost berry)

of the genus Gaultheria, especially Gaultheria oppositifolia

of species Gaultheria appressa (white waxberry)

of species Gaultheria depressa (alpine waxberry)


hipwort

Umbilicus rupestris
Umbilicus rupestris#Translingual

A fleshy, edible plant in the stonecrop family (Umbilicus rupestris).


smallage

From Middle English smalache, equivalent to small + ache (“celery, parsley”).

Chop the smallage exceeding small and put it in a good half hour before you are to take your posset from the fire: You are to season your Gruel with a little Salt, at the due time; and you may put in a little Nutmeg, and Mace to it.

1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, A Garden of Herbs: Being a Practical Handbook to the Making of an Old English Herb Garden, page 123:


hobblebush

A low bush of species Viburnum lantanoides, having long, straggling branches and pretty flowers, found in the northern United States.


brazilwood

en-noun

brazilwood (usually uncountable, plural brazilwoods)

A Brazilian timber tree (Paubrasilia echinata, syn. Caesalpinia echinata), used primarily to make bows for string instruments.


oxlip

From Middle English *oxeslyppe, from Old English oxanslyppe (“oxlip”), from oxan, genitive of oxa (“ox”) + slyppe (“paste, slimy substance”). Compare cowslip, of similar formation.

Primula veris
Primula veris#Translingual

A plant of species Primula elatior, similar to cowslip (Primula veris) but with larger, pale yellow flowers.


humble plant

Mimosa pudica
Mimosa pudica#Translingual


ribwort

Plantago lanceolata
Plantago lanceolata#Translingual

ribgrass; Old World plantain, Plantago lanceolata.


ribgrass

ribwort; Old World plantain, Plantago lanceolata.


bladdernut

Any of several species of large shrubs or small trees, of the genus Staphylea, in the family Staphyleaceae


chestnut oak

A species of oak tree native to the eastern USA (Quercus montana, syn. Quercus prinus).


malvaceous

Malvaceae + -ous, from Latin malva (“mallow”).

Of or pertaining to plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae.

malváceo

of or pertaining to plants in the mallow family


logwood

logwood (countable and uncountable, plural logwoods)

Any of various trees of the genus Xylosma in the willow family.


mirabelle plum

The sweet, edible drupaceous fruit of the mirabelle prune tree, a cultivar of the plum tree of the subspecies Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca, often used in pies, wines, and brandy


laserwort

laserwort (countable and uncountable, plural laserworts)

An umbelliferous plant (Laserpitium latifolium) from which the resin laser was obtained.


shea

The people were every where employed in collecting the fruit of the Shea trees, from which they prepare the vegetable butter mentioned in former parts of this work. […] They are not planted by the natives, but are found growing naturally in the woods; and, in clearing wood land for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea.

1799, Mungo Park, chapter XVI, in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, pages 202–203:

Vitellaria paradoxa
Vitellaria paradoxa#Translingual

A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda.


shea butter

shea butter (usually uncountable, plural shea butters)

/ˈʃeɪ ˌbʌtɚ/

[ˈʃeɪ̯ ˌbʌɾɚ]

About two o'clock in the afternoon, a sort of hasty pudding, with a little Shea butter, is the common meal; but the supper constitutes the principal repast, and is seldom ready before midnight.

1799, Mungo Park, chapter XXI, in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, page 279:

Shea butter is sold by hundreds of small firms who package and reformulate the butter under their own labels, purporting to by-pass the depersonalizing tendencies of mass-production and mass-marketing. […]

2004, Brenda Chalfin, Shea Butter Republic, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 179:

A slightly yellowish or ivory-colored natural fat extracted from fruit of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) by crushing and boiling, widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer and an emollient, as a cooking oil in West Africa, and sometimes used in the chocolate industry as a substitute for cocoa butter.

yɔkumi

fat extracted from the fruit of the shea tree


French honeysuckle

French honeysuckle (countable and uncountable, plural French honeysuckles)

A perennial herb, Hedysarum coronarium, native to Northern Africa and Spain.


four-leaf clover

four-leaf clover (plural four-leaf clovers)

An uncommon variation of the clover, having four leaves instead of the usual three.


navy bean

So called because the United States Navy has served the beans as a staple to its sailors since the mid-1800s.

Beans—Very scarce Navy Beans 112 a 115c.

1851 May 10, “The Markets”, in North Carolina Standard, volume 1, no. 53, Raleigh, N.C., archived from the original on 2016-09-25, page 3:

Janie […] baked big pans of navy beans with plenty of sugar and hunks of bacon laying on top.

1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 132:

Phaseolus vulgaris
Phaseolus vulgaris#Translingual

A white bean of a variety of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris).


milkvetch

Any member of most species of flowering plants of the genus Astragalus.

قَتَاد

Astragalus — see also tragacanth, locoweed


monkeyflower

Any of various plants in the genus Mimulus.


kotukutuku

A tree of New Zealand, Fuchsia excorticata, bearing edible purple berries.


toothwort

From tooth + wort.
From having an appearance similar to teeth.

Any of several species of flowering plants of the genus Lathraea.


succade

succade (countable and uncountable, plural succades)

He rootes of Borage and Buglosse soden tender , and made in a succade , doth ingender good blode

1542, Andrew Boorde, Fyrst Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge:

Candied citrus peel (or, less commonly, other preserves).


applejohn

From apple + John, possibly from the fact that it can be eaten on St. John's Day, June 24th, of the year after it was picked.

What the devil hast thou brought there? apple-johns? / thou knowest Sir John cannot endure an apple-john.

a. 1599, William Shakespeare, II Henry IV, act II scene IV:

(obsolete) A variety of apple which can be kept for a long period, gradually becoming dry and withered; known today as the French crab.


balsamine

From Latin balsamina (“balsam plant”) (perhaps via French balsamine), from Ancient Greek βαλσαμίνη (balsamínē). The Latin name of the unrelated balsam plant must have been applied to Impatiens balsamina soon after it arrived in Europe- Leonhart Fuchs referred to it as balsamina as early as 1542.

Impatiens balsamina
Impatiens balsamina#Translingual

A plant, the Impatiens balsamina, or garden balsam.


stonecrop

stonecrop (countable and uncountable, plural stonecrops)

From stone + crop, from the apparent ability of the plant to grow out of bare rock and stone.

orange stonecrop (Phedimus kamtschaticus

A trailing plant with flowers like small white stars had bound itself across the bows as if in reverence for the fallen king, and in the crevices of his stony hair yellow stonecrop gleamed.

Any of various succulent plants of the Crassulaceae family, native to temperate zones, especially in genus Sedum

חַיָּיא לְעָלְמָא

ḥayyā lə-ʿāləmā

חַי הָעוֹלָם

ḥay hā-ʿōlā́m

חַי לְעוֹלָם

ḥay lə-ʿōlā́m

Certain plants of genus Lithospermum, in family Boraginaceae.


Venus comb

Scandix pecten-veneris
Scandix pecten-veneris#Translingual

An umbelliferous plant (Scandix pecten-veneris).


shepherd's needle

shepherd's needle (plural shepherd's needles)


elderflower

Ethel was yet bathing her eyes with elderflowers, preparatory to going, when her departure was again delayed by another visitor.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Disclosure”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 303:

Sambucus nigra
Sambucus nigra#Translingual

The blossom of the elderberry, often specifically the European species Sambucus nigra


insignis

From Latin īnsignis (“remarkable”), in reference to its rapid growth. Compare remarkable pine.

Pinus radiata
Pinus radiata#Translingual

The Monterey pine (Pinus radiata, syn. Pinus insignis).


snakewood

snakewood (usually uncountable, plural snakewoods)

Any of various North American shrubs of the genus Colubrina (family Rhamnaceae), often specifically Colubrina texensis.


alexanders

From French alisander, apparently named for Alexander the Great, for one or more species thought to be endemic to Macedonia.

/ˌælɪɡˈzændɚz/

/ˌælɪɡˈzɑːndəz/

(chiefly Canada, US) Various plants of genus Zizia or Angelica thought to resemble European alexanders.


fagaceous

(botany) Of the family Fagaceae of beeches and similar trees.


nashi

Alternative form of Nashi (a Nashi pear)


hemp-nettle

Any weed of the genus Galeopsis in the Lamiaceae family.

бударица

any weed of the genus Galeopsis in the Lamiaceae family


zitan

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 紫檀 (zǐtán).

Wood of a red sandalwood tree (Pterocarpus santalinus).


manzanita

Borrowed from Spanish manzanita, so named because the fruits look like little apples.

The horse groaned and started his running walk down the trail; Uncle Charley pursued him, breaking a twig off a manzanita bush and handing it up to Monica, who flailed the sorry brute across the shoulders and rump.

1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter VIII, in The Understanding Heart:

Any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Arctostaphylos, especially Arctostaphylos manzanita, having smooth red or orange bark and stiff, twisting branches.


saintpaulia

(botany) Any of the perennial flowering plants of the genus Saintpaulia, the African violets, especially Saintpaulia ionantha.


beautyberry

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A genus of shrubs, Callicarpa, which produce berries.


longleaf

longleaf (plural longleafs or longleaves)

The best timber was longleaf, and it grew in the piney woods.

1994, Joe C. Truett, Daniel W. Lay, Land of Bears and Honey, →ISBN, page 12:

Pinus palustris
Pinus palustris#Translingual

A longleaf pine, Pinus palustris, or the wood of this tree


globe daisy

Any plant of genus Globularia of perennials, such as

Globularia vulgaris, native to western Europe, sometimes used as a laxative.


chenier

chenier (usually uncountable, plural cheniers)

From (Louisiana) French chênière, from chêne (“oak”).

A beach ridge consisting of sand or crushed shells raised above mudflats forming part of a strand plain.


jostaberry

From German Jostabeere, itself derived from Johannisbeere and Stachelbeere.

A fruit made by crossing several members of the Ribes genus, including blackcurrant and gooseberry.


anet

Inherited from Middle English anet, anete, annet, annete, from Middle French anet, from Latin anēthum (“dill; anise”).


swamp pine

(US) Any of several pine trees, such as loblolly pine or longleaf pine, that prefer swampy conditions


Canadian red pine

Canadian red pine (plural Canadian red pines)

Pinus resinosa
Pinus resinosa#Translingual

Pinus resinosa, a pine tree found in eastern North America having long needles and reddish bark.


jack pine

An evergreen tree of species Pinus banksiana.


cherrywood

A hardwood obtained from the cherry tree, valued for use in furniture and other woodworking applications.


sweetbox

A slow-growing evergreen ground cover Sarcococca humilis with insignificant white flowers with a sharp aroma of cinnamon and cloves.


Manitoba maple

(Canada) A small, fast-growing and fairly short-lived species of North American maple with pinnately compound leaves, Acer negundo.


moabi

Borrowed from certain Gabonese or Congolese Bantu (cf. Sira moabi, Barama moabi, Vumbu moabi, Punu moabi, Lumbu moabi, Loango moabi, Sangu (Gabon) moabi, Ngubi moabi, Duma muyabi, Ibhili muyavi, Njebi muyèbi, moyabi, muyabi, Vili moabi, Yombe moabi, Yaa moyabi, muyabi, Teke-Laali moyabi, muyabi).

The inside walls are sheathed in an amber-colored veneer about the thickness of two sheets of paper, cut from a single log of an African moabi tree.

2009 January 29, Daniel J. Wakin, “Musicians Hear Heaven in Tully Hall’s New Sound”, in New York Times:

Baillonella toxisperma, a species of tree found throughout subtropical forests of Africa, used for its oil.


eucalypt

Shortened form of the genus name Eucalyptus

Any tree of the tribe Eucalypteae of genera related and similar to Eucalyptus, such as Corymbia and Angophora.


American laurel

American laurel (plural American laurels)

Kalmia latifolia
Kalmia latifolia#Translingual

A flowering shrub, native to the eastern United States (Kalmia latifolia)


California laurel

California laurel (plural California laurels)

Umbellularia californica
Umbellularia californica#Translingual

Umbellularia californica, a tree native to coastal forests of western North America.


cherry laurel

Prunus sect. Laurocerasus
Prunus sect. Laurocerasus

An evergreen cherry in the section Prunus sect. Laurocerasus, some of which are cultivated as ornamentals.

Prunus caroliniana, native to the southeastern United States.


great laurel

Rhododendron maximum, a species of rhododendron native to eastern North America.


ground laurel

ground laurel (countable and uncountable, plural ground laurels)

Epigaea repens, a low, spreading shrub found throughout eastern North America.


lemon verbena

A deciduous perennial shrub native to South America, used for its lemon-like fragrance and flavor, Aloysia citrodora.


mountain ash

mountain ash (usually uncountable, plural mountain ashes)

On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and the mountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:

Various measures were taken to avoid it, most popular being the suspension of certain herbs and tree branches over the doorways of dwellings and stables. Commonly used greenery were tansy, honesty, garlic, St. John's Wort, mountain ash, roadside verbena.

1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 271:

2007, Tyler Guthrie, Mountain Ash: Formally Rowan Tree, Trinity College, Academic Dissertation.

Sorbus aucuparia
Sorbus aucuparia#Translingual

(British) A European tree, rowan or, more specifically, European rowan, of species Sorbus aucuparia.

All three mountain-ashes are shrubs of climax and subclimax northern coniferous forest communities, along with speckled alder, Labrador tea, mountain and red maples, yellow birch, and bunchberry.

1974, William M. Healy, Shrubs and Vines for Northeastern Wildlife, numbers 6-10, page 99:

To the front left of the house, just up from the sidewalk, was a mountain ash tree. Before I was born, Gramma Moody, planted the mountain ash tree there.

2008, Elna Fone Nugent, Mountain Ash: A New England Memoir, page 30:

In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world.

2011, Ruth Sims, The Legend of the Mountain Ash, unnumbered page:

Any of several trees in the genus Sorbus in North America.

McCarthy and Lindenmayer (1998) developed a model of the development of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest in response to fire. The model predicted the prevalence of multi-aged Mountain Ash forest as a function of the mean fire interval.

2002, Brendan Mackey, David Lindenmayer, Malcolm Gill, Michael McCarthy, Janette Lindesay, editors, Wildlife, Fire and Future Climate: A Forest Ecosystem Analysis, page 42:

A tree native to southeastern Australia, Eucalyptus regnans, the tallest of all flowering plants.

A Texan ash tree of species Fraxinus texensis.


katsura

To screen out the houses, Mr. Darke and Ms. Zoehrer have planted cedars and katsura trees, sweetshrub and shadbush, and turned their gaze inward, to the garden of their own making.

2007 May 31, Anne Raver, “Reshaping Their Own Worldview”, in New York Times:

Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Cercidiphyllum japonicum#Translingual

One of two species of trees in the genus Cercidiphyllum, most commonly Cercidiphyllum japonicum, one of the largest trees in Asia.


mountain bearberry

mountain bearberry (plural mountain bearberries)

Arctostaphylos alpina
Arctostaphylos alpina#Translingual

A species of bearberry (Arctous alpina, syn. Arctostaphylos alpina).


lungwort

lungwort (countable and uncountable, plural lungworts)

From lung + wort.
* Having an appearance reminiscent of lungs
* Having been used as a treatment for respiratory ailments

toothwort Cardamine subg. Dentaria spp.)

Any of various European plants, of the genus Pulmonaria (family Boraginaceae), that were once used to treat respiratory disorders.


lodgepole

lodgepole (countable and uncountable, plural lodgepoles)

Although individual lodgepoles got killed almost instantly by fires, those same fires set the stage for more lodgepole stands

1995, Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West, page 27:

Here stood an eight-by-ten-foot canvas tent stretched over a lodgepole frame ...Around the stove were a lodgepole table, a lodgepole bed

2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 95:


Cox's Orange Pippin

Cox's Orange Pippin (plural Cox's Orange Pippins)

First grown in 1830 by English horticulturist Richard Cox.


mahoe

Any of certain trees in the mallow family, native to the Caribbean.

Talipariti elatum (syn. Hibiscus elatus, blue mahoe)

Talipariti tiliaceum
Talipariti tiliaceum#Translingual

Hibiscus tiliaceus
Hibiscus tiliaceus#Translingual

Talipariti tiliaceum (syn. Hibiscus tiliaceus, seaside mahoe)


mahoe

Either of two different trees, usually found around the tropics.

Alectryon macrococcus, a tree in the soapberry family, endemic to Hawaii.

Any tree of genus Melicytus, in the violet family, known from southeastern Australia and New Zealand, especially Melicytus ramiflorus.


tanoak

Notholithocarpus densiflorus, an evergreen tree of the beech family, native to the western United States, whose seeds resemble the acorns of an oak.


liveforever

From live + forever, from its hardiness.


labdanum

labdanum (usually uncountable, plural labdanums)

From Latin lādanum, from Ancient Greek λήδανον (lḗdanon, “gum”), from λήδον (lḗdon, “rockrose”), from a Semitic language; compare Akkadian 𒆷𒁷𒉡 (ladinnu).

Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.

1607, [attributed to Thomas Tomkis], Lingva: Or The Combat of the Tongue, and the Five Senses for Superiority. A Pleasant Comœdie., London: Printed by G[eorge] Eld, for Simon Waterson, →OCLC, act IV, scene iii:

Aromatics were used, too, especially in necromancy, and an old recipe of that sort comprises Musk, Myrrh, Frankincense, Red Storax, Mastick, Olibanum, Saffron, Benzoin and Labdanum.

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:

(A chypre perfume is usually built with oak moss, patchouli and labdanum, an absolute of a dark, thick-smelling Mediterranean bush.)

2007 August 26, Chandler Burr, “Back in Print”, in New York Times:

A sticky brown resin obtained from species of rockrose, used mainly in perfume.


teakwood

teakwood (countable and uncountable, plural teakwoods)

In addition to stained-glass windows and a graceful chandelier over the grand staircase, the boat was festooned with elegant teakwood handrails that encircle the decks, red mahogany that graces the walls in common areas, and rare Siamese ironwood floors.

2007 October 25, Sean D. Hamill, “A Riverboat Could Be Cruising to the End of the Line”, in New York Times:

An item of craftsmanship made from teak.


bitter orange

bitter orange (countable and uncountable, plural bitter oranges)

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Citrus aurantium
Citrus aurantium#Translingual

A citrus tree of the species Citrus ×aurantium, also called Citrus aurantium.


baptisia

“We’re really excited about the new baptisias out of Chicago Botanic Garden,” said Steven Castorani, a co-owner of North Creek Nurseries, which specializes in native plants, in Landenberg, Pa.

2008 January 24, Anne Raver, “What the Nurseries Like for Spring”, in New York Times:

(horticulture) Any of various ornamental plants of the genus Baptisia


wenge

Mr. Faraday rattled off the options: Atlantic Luxe (white Carrara marble, African wenge floors, white Pedini cabinets); Harbor Chic (silver cabinets, white-oak flooring and “Portuguese limestone,” Mr. Faraday whispered, running his hand over the counter surface); and Hudson Mod (“the most traditional, with eggshell quartz counters, exotic wood cabinets and American chestnut flooring.”)

2008 March 30, Suzanne Slesin, “Taking in the River View From Both Banks”, in New York Times:

A very dark and hard tropical timber, from the tree species Millettia laurentii.


nigger toe

(colloquial, offensive, dated) A brazil nut.


retem

Ultimately from a Semitic language. Compare Arabic رَتَم (ratam), Biblical Hebrew רותם

A shrub with white flowers, possibly Retama raetam; the juniper of the (King James Version) Old Testament.