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eatricis for Beatrice Hops, who discovered Watsonia beatricis in S Africa (c. 1920).
beatus -a -um Latin beatus, happy, blessed, abundant, prosperous, from beo, beare, to bless, gladden, make
happy, enrich.
Beaufortia for Mary Somerset (c. 1630-1714), Duchess of Beaufort, patroness of botany.
Beaumontia for Lady Diana Beaumont (d. 1831), of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire.
beauverdianus -a -um for Gustave Beauverd (1867-1942), of the Boissier Herbarium, Geneva.
bebaeo Greek βεβαιος, bebaios, firm, steady, steadfast, durable.
bebbia, bebbianus -a -um, bebbii Beb'bia (BEB-bee-a) for Michael Shuck Bebb, early northern Illinois botanist
and willow specialist who lived near Seward (1833-1895).
bebel-, bebelo Greek βεβηλος, bebelos, profane, uniniated.
beber Vulgar Latin, beber, bebri, a beaver, possibly from Gaulish beber, beaver, or Latin cognate fiber,
‘beaver’.
bebius -a -um from the Bebisch mountains, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia; firm, steady, trusty, from Greek βεβαιος,
bebaios.
bebr-, bebro- Greek βεβρος, bebros, stupid.
beccabunga from an old German name Bachbungen, from German bach, brook, and bunge, from Old High
German bungo, bulb, swelling, meaning mouth-smart or streamlet-blocker, Brook-lime, or Water Pimpernel,
Veronica beccabunga.
beccarianus -a -um for Odoardo (Odordo) Beccari (1843-1920), botanist and traveller in Borneo.
Beccariophoenix Beccari’s date palm, botanical Latin from Beccari and phoenix.
bech-, bechic, becho- Greek βηχος, bechos, cough.
beckii (BEK-ee-eye)
Beckmannia after Johann Beckmann (1739-1811), professor at Goettingen (Göttingen), botanist, and author
of one of the first botanical dictionaries.
beco- Greek βεκος, bekos, bread.
bedeguaris -is -e brought by the wind, from Persian bādāwar, bādāward, the supposed cause of the
Hymenopteran-induced gall, rose bedeguar, or Robin’s pin-cushion, others say this is from Persian bād, wind,
breath, and Arabic ward, rose. Bedeguar is also the name of white spiny or thorny plant, an Echinops, or
Silybum marianum, Milk Thistle.
Bedfordia, bedfordianus -a -um for John Russell, (1766-1839), Sixth Duke of Bedford.
beesianus -a -um named for Bees, a nursery and seed supplier in Ness, Cheshire, UK, plant introducers from
China and elsewhere.
Befaria for Dr. Bejar, a Spanish botanist (a Linnaean spelling error).
Begonia named for Michel Bégon (1638-1710), French Canadian govenor (?), French Governor of St.
Dominique and patron of botany.
Begoniaceae of the Begonia family, from the genus name, Begonia, and -aceae, the standardized Latin suffix of
plant family names.
begonifolius -a -um, begoniifolius -a -um with unsymmetrical leaves like Begonia, from , and folium,
foli(i), n., noun, a leaf.
begonioides Begonia-like, from Begonia and oides.
beharensis -is -e from Behara, Madagascar, for felt leaf, Kalenchoe beharensis.
behen from an Arabic name for several plants, medieval Latin behen, from Arabic bahman, behmen, a kind
of root, a dog rose. The exact plant is unsure.
beissnerianus -a -um, beissneri for Ludwig Beissner of Poppelsdorf (1843-1927), writer on Coniferae.
bejariensis -is -e of, from or pertaining to Béjar, Spain.
bel-, bellemn-, belli-, bello-, bellus, -bellus Greek βελος, belos, an arrow, a dart, sting, any weapon or engine
of war.
Belamcanda probably based on a vernacular name in western India for the leopard lily; originally published
as Belamkanda
belemn-, belemno Greek βελεµνον, belemnon, javelin.
belgicus -a -um from Belgium or the Netherlands
bell, bell- Latin bellus, beautiful, handsome, pretty, charming (bellatus)
bell-, bellac-, bellat, belli, bellic Latin bellum, war, duel between two.
belladonna bellado'na (bel-uh-DON-a) beautiful lady, referrring to the former use of deadly nightshade as an eye
cosmetic. Women used belladonna eyedrops to dilate their pupils, to produce a fetching, dreamy, intoxicated stare.
bellat- Latin belator, a warrior, bellatrix, female warrior.