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Holocarpha Holocar'pha (ho-lo-KAR-fa) Greek ὁλος, holos, whole, complete, and karphos, chaff, for the paleate<br />

receptacles<br />

holocarpus whole-fruited, <strong>with</strong> entire or undivided fruits, from and Greek καρπός, karpos, fruit.<br />

holochrysus wholly-golden, completely<br />

holodasys, holodasyus silky, woolly, from Greek ὁλος, holos, complete, whole, entire, all, and dasus, <strong>with</strong> a<br />

shaggy surface.<br />

Holodiscus Holodis'cus (ho-lo-DIS-kus)<br />

hololeucus -a -um hololeu'cus (ho-lo-LYOO-kus) completely white, also as silky-white(?), a transcriptural error;<br />

from Greek holo-leukos, all white.<br />

holophus -a -um holop'terus (ho-LOP-ter-us) <strong>with</strong> a silky tuft(?)<br />

holopterus having silk-like(?) wings.<br />

holopyllus <strong>with</strong> entire or undivided leaves<br />

holosericeus -a -um holoseric'eus (ho-lo-se-RIS-ee-us) completely silky, but seen listed as woolly-silky (?) in<br />

LHB, thickly covered <strong>with</strong> a fine silky pubescence, velvet-like; from holosericus -a -um, Latin adjective from<br />

Erasmus, meaning all silk, made entirely of silk, from holosericum, holoserici n., Latin noun, silk; velvet.<br />

holosteus, Holosteum hard or boney, New Latin, from Greek holosteon, a plant, from hol-, holos, whole or<br />

all, and osteon bone, a humorous allusion to the frailty of the plant.<br />

holothur-, holothuri-, holothurum, -holothurum Greek a kind of zoophyte<br />

Holozonia Greek holos, whole or entire, and zona, belt or girdle; a referencce to each phyllary fully (or<br />

mostly) investing a ray ovary (cypsela), in contrast to the half-invested cypselae of Hemizoni<br />

holsaticus from Holstein, Germany.<br />

holus a vegetable; figuratively, under the influence of (?).<br />

holusatrum, holus atrum parsley; (Cretan) alexanders: Smyrnium holusatrum (L.).<br />

holzingeri<br />

hom, homeo, homo, homoeo, homoio Greek like, same, of the same kind, alike<br />

hom-, homin, homo Latin man<br />

homalo Greek homalês, even, level<br />

homalocarpus bearing flat fruit, from and Greek καρπός, karpos, fruit.<br />

homalophyllus <strong>with</strong> flat, level, or horizontal leaves.<br />

homalotropus <strong>with</strong> organs growing in a horizontal direction.<br />

homar Old French a lobster<br />

homeo Greek like, resembling alike<br />

homin, homini Latin man<br />

homo, -homo Latin man<br />

homo, homieo, homio Greek like, resembling, of the same kind, alike<br />

homo unius libri (timeo) "(I fear) a man of one book" Attributed to Thomas Aquinas<br />

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. I am human, I regard nothing human as foreign to me.<br />

homocarpus <strong>with</strong> fruit of only one kind, from and Greek καρπός, karpos, fruit.<br />

homochromus of uniform color.<br />

homogamous bearing one kind of flower only, or having all florets, hermaphroditic.<br />

homolepis homologous scales, <strong>with</strong> uniform scales, having scales of one kind, from and Greek λεπίς,<br />

λεπιδο-, lepis, lepido-, scale.<br />

homomallus, homotropus all turned in the same direction (?)<br />

homomallus turning in the same direction, used in describing leaves. See heteromallus.<br />

homomorpheus being all of the same form, as in the florets of Compositae.<br />

homonemeus growing together in colonies in the woods.<br />

homostegius equally covered.<br />

homotrichus, homotricha<br />

Honckenya for Gerhard August Honckeny (1724-1805), German botanist<br />

hondaensis from Honda, on the banks of the Magdalena in South America.<br />

hondoensis from Hondo, Japan<br />

hoodii after Robert Hood (1797?-1921?? (very old man) (www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/pageHI-<br />

HY.html), a midshipman <strong>with</strong> the first Arctic Land Expedition of 1819-1822), died October 1821.<br />

honestus ornamented, beautified.<br />

hookeri, hookerianus -a -um hook'eri (HOOK-er-eye) for Sir William Hooker (1785-1865), or his son Sir Joseph<br />

Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), successive directors of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London. The younger Sir

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