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Odontostomum Greek οδους, οδοντος, odous, odontos, tooth, and stoma, mouth, referring to the erect,<br />

subulate filaments at the flower throat<br />

odor, -odor, odori Latin an odor, smell<br />

odoratissimus very fragrant, of a very sweet odor.<br />

odoratus -a -um odora'tus (o-do-RAH-tus, oh-dor-AY-tus) Latin scented, odorous, fragrant, sweet-smelling.<br />

odorifer, odoriferus giving off a sweet odor.<br />

odorus sweet-smelling.<br />

odus, -odus Greek a way(<br />

odyn, odyne, -odyne, odynia, -odynia, odyno Greek pain<br />

oe (see also ae, ai, or e)<br />

oec, oeci, oeco, oecus, -oecus Greek a house, dwelling<br />

oecetes, -oecetes Greek an inhabitant<br />

Oeceoclades Greek oikeios, of a household, Latin oeceos, and Latin clades, destruction, possibly alluding to<br />

breaking up of existing classification (fna)<br />

oeconomicus used in agriculture (bad translation probably grown for economic use).<br />

oed, oede, oedema, oedo Greek a swelling, tumor<br />

Oedipodium from Greek oidema, swelling or tumor, and Latin podium, platform, referring to capsule neck<br />

oedocarpa<br />

oeg, oego Greek open<br />

oeil de pourpre French cv. purple eye<br />

oelandicus from oeland, an island of Sweden.<br />

oem, oema, oemo Greek a way, path<br />

Oemleria Oemler'ia (ohm-LER-ee-a)<br />

oen, oena Greek a wild pigeon<br />

oen-, oeno, oenus, -oenus Greek wine<br />

oen- root word, usually a prefix, referring to a vine, esp. the grape vine; therefore, by extension, wine, Latin<br />

oen-, oeno-, from Greek οἰνο-, oino-, from οἶνος, oinos, wine, from Proto-Indo-European *woi-no, *wei-no,<br />

cognates Cretan Doric ibèna, Russian vinograd, grape, Italic vino, Latin vinum, English wine, and Germanic<br />

wein. Other ancient roots of wine include proto-Semitic *wanju, Egyptian *wns, Kartvelian *wing, and Hittite<br />

*wijana. The Greek root may have originally been ϝοίνος, woinos, the F-like letter, digamma, <strong>with</strong> the ‘w’<br />

sound was dropped from the Ionic alphabet by Homer’s time.<br />

oenanth Greek the first shoot of the vine; the windflower; a small bird<br />

Oenanthe Oenan'the (ee-NAN-the)<br />

oenensis from the banks of the river Oenus, now Inn, a chief tributary of the Danube.<br />

oenobarbus <strong>with</strong> a green beard.<br />

Oenothera Oenother'a (ee-no-THEER-a, or ee-no-THEE-ruh) New Latin, from Latin oenothēra, onothēra,<br />

onothēras, a plant of the related genus Epilobium, from Greek oinotheras, onothera, oenotheris the juice of a plant<br />

that is drunk in wine to produce sleep. Alternately, wine-flowering, by inference wine-scented, from oen, grape<br />

vine, wine, and ανθηρος, antheros, flowering, blooming. The plant was thought to to give one a taste for wine, or a<br />

better taste to wine, the roots of Oenothera biennis are edible and were formally taken after dinner to flavor wine,<br />

hence the common name wine-trap; οἰνοθἡρας, oinotheras, from Theophrastus, may be translated as “wine-trap”;<br />

also οῖνος, oinos, and θηράω, therao, to hunt, referring to the root causing a thirst, or to hunt for wine. 15 th century<br />

Latin oenothēra from classical Latin onothēra, onothēras, from Pliny, a name for a toxic plant that was used in<br />

small quantities to catch asses and other animals, from Hellenistic Greek ὀνοθήρας, onotheras, literally ass-catcher,<br />

from ancient Greek ὄνος, onos, ass, and θηρᾶν, theran, to hunt, pursue, catch, from θήρ, ther, (as in thero-) wild<br />

beast; another name was ὀναγρα, onagra, ass-trap. (Onagraceae)<br />

Oenotheraceae an old name for the plants of the Oenothera, Evening-Primrose family, now Onagraceae, from<br />

the genus name, Oenothera, and -aceae, the standardized Latin suffix of plant family names.<br />

oesophag-, oesophagi, oesophago Greek the gullet, esophagus<br />

oestr-, oestro, oestrus, -oestrus Greek a gadfly; sting; frenzy<br />

offic- official, recognized (usually from medicine or commerce)<br />

officinalis -is -e officina'le (oh-fis-in-AY-lee) of the shops, sold in (apothecaries’) shops, sold as an herb, sold in<br />

the marketplace, of practical use to man; used in medicine, medicinal, official, from officina, noun, Modern Latin,<br />

workshop, laboratory, or herb pharmacy, and -alis, of or pertaining to.<br />

officinarum of the apothecaries<br />

ogdoa Greek eight

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