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diffusus, diffusa -um, diffusior -or -us, diffusissimus -a -um Latin adjective, spread out; wide; extending or<br />

covering widely; extensive or expansive in referring to writing.<br />

diffusus -a -um diffu'sus (dif-YOO-sus) diffuse, spreading about, spread out, wildly or loosley spreading<br />

diffusisimus -a -um most or very spread out or wide, Latin superlative adjective from diffusus, diffuse,<br />

spreading, and –isimus, most.<br />

digamous having two sexes in the same cluster as in Compositae<br />

digest Latin dissolved; digest<br />

digestus dissolved; divided(?)<br />

digit, digital, digiti- Latin a finger or toe, referring to fingers, digitate, hand-like.<br />

digitaliflorus <strong>with</strong> flowers like Digitalis, Foxglove<br />

Digitalis, digitalis -is -e Digita'lis (dij-i-TAY-lis) modern Latin from Latin digitālis, pertaining to the fingers, or<br />

digits, from Latin digitus, for the shape of the corolla resembling the finger of a glove. The plant was named by<br />

Fuchs in 1542 as an allusion to the German name, Fingerhut, i.e. thimble.<br />

Digitaria New Latin, from Latin digitus finger and New Latin –aria<br />

digitatus hand-shaped, fingered, <strong>with</strong> fingers, said of leaves such as those of Horse-Chestnut<br />

digitellus shaped like small fingers<br />

digitiformis finger shaped, formed like fingers<br />

dign- Latin worthy, fit.<br />

digyma<br />

digynus <strong>with</strong> two styles (or one deeply cleft style) or carpels, plants having two pistils, from Greek δι-, di and<br />

γυνή, gyne, woman, wife<br />

Díktamos Greek δίκταµος, diktamos, oregano.<br />

dilaceratus torn asunder, lacerated<br />

dilat- Latin expanded<br />

dilatatus -a -um dilata'tus (dil-a-TAY-tus) dilated, spread out, expanded, extended, widened into a blade<br />

dilatus dilated, spread out<br />

Dilleniaceae plants of the Sandpaper-tree family, from the genus name, Dillenia, and -aceae, the standardized<br />

Latin suffix of plant family names.<br />

Dillenia, dillenii honoring for Johann Jacob Dillen (Latinized as Dillenius), 18th century German botanist,<br />

botanical engraver and illustrator, physician, and professor at Oxford. Linnaeus honored him <strong>with</strong> the tropical<br />

tree genus Dillenia, and Dilleniaceae.<br />

dilute slightly, weakly, palely<br />

dilutus diluted, weak, pale, light, thin or thinned down, tapered<br />

Dimeresia Greek dimeres, in 2 parts or <strong>with</strong> 2 members, meaning unclear<br />

dimersus double-jointed<br />

dimidi Latin half; to halve<br />

dimidiatus halved, when half an organ is much smaller than the other<br />

dimin Latin lessen.<br />

diminutus small, diminished, dwarfed<br />

dimorphanthus producing two distinctly different flowers<br />

Dimorphotheca (di-mor-fo-THEE-ka) New Latin, from dimorpho-, from Greek dimorphos, d-i, dis-, two,<br />

twice, morphe, shape, and -theca, a fruit; a case or container, for the different type of cypselae produced by the ray<br />

and disk flowers.<br />

dimorphus -a -um, dimorphous dimor'phus (di-MOR-fus) two-formed, twice-shaped, existing in or presenting<br />

two forms<br />

din-, dino Greek terrible; whirling.<br />

dinaricus from the Dinaric Alps in Dalmatia<br />

dio- Greek divine, noble.<br />

Diodia New Latin, from Greek diodos thoroughfare, from dia- and hodos way, and New Latin -ia; from the<br />

frequent growth of these plants by the wayside; alternately Greek δις, dis, twice, and ὀδούς, odous tooth,<br />

referring to the two calyx teeth crowing the ovary. (Rubiaceae)<br />

Diodia two-toothed, δι-οδους.<br />

diodon <strong>with</strong> two teeth, from δι-οδων<br />

diodontus double-toothed

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