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Petalostemum also spelled Petalostemon. New Latin, from the union of the petals and stamens, petalo-, from<br />

Greek petalon leaf, and Greek stemon warp, thread, similar to Old Irish sessam, act of standing, Sanskrit<br />

sthaman, station, and deriving from Greek histanai to cause to stand, set, place meaning standing upright.<br />

petas-, petasm, petasma Greek anything spread out, a curtain<br />

Petasites (pe-ta-SEE-teez) New Latin, from Dioscorides (?), from Greek petasites, petasitis butterbur, from<br />

petasos broad-brimmed hat; probably from the shape and size of the large basal leaves; akin to Greek<br />

petannynai to spread out.<br />

petaur, petauro, petaurum Greek a perch, springboard<br />

petechi Latin <strong>with</strong> red spots on the skin<br />

petig, petigin, petigo Latin a scab<br />

petiginosus lichen-like.<br />

petil Latin slender, thin<br />

petin, petino Greek winged, flying<br />

petiol-, petiola, petiolus Latin a stalk, petiole<br />

petiolaris -is -e petioled, being stalked, <strong>with</strong> a leaf stalk, <strong>with</strong> a long leaf stalk, from scientific Latin<br />

petiolaris (Linnaeus Philosophia Botanica (1763) 108), from petiolus n. and -ār-is, -ār-e, stem -āri, suffix<br />

meaning of the kind of, belonging to.<br />

petiolatus petioled, <strong>with</strong> or having a leaf stalk, <strong>with</strong> a long leaf stalk<br />

petiole a little foot, the stalk of a leaf, or the stalk of a leaflet, from French pétiole (1749 in botanical sense;<br />

the entomological sense is not attested in French until later (1845)) or its etymon classical Latin petiolus.<br />

petiolus from classical Latin petiolus, variant of peciolus little foot, stalk of fruit, probably representing a<br />

diminutive formation, from ped-, pēs foot . Also after scientific Latin petiolus leaf stalk, from Linnaeus, 1751<br />

or earlier.<br />

petit- Latin seek<br />

petit faucon French cv. little falcon<br />

Petiveria For James Petiver (1658-1718), English apothecary and botanist<br />

petr, petra, -petra, petro Greek a rock, stone<br />

Petradoria from Greek petros, rock, and doria, an early name for goldenrods<br />

petraeus growing among rocks, growing on stoney ground.<br />

petricosus rocky, stony.<br />

Petrocallis rock beauty<br />

petrocopos saxifrage.<br />

petrogenus growing on rocks.<br />

petrophilus rock-loving, stone-loving.<br />

Petrophyton Petrophy'ton (pet-ro-FIE-ton)<br />

petropolitanus from Petropolis, Brazil.<br />

Petrorhagia Petrorha'gia (pet-ro-RAY-jee-a) Greek petra-, rock, and rhagas, rent or chink, a translation of Latin<br />

saxifraga, rockbreaking, alluding to prevalence in rock crevice, or the appearance of breaking rocks<br />

Petrosélinon Greek πετροσέλινον, petroselinon, parsley, from πέτρος, petros, rock, stone, and σέλινον,<br />

selinon, celery, meaning rock celery.<br />

petroselinum Latin for parsley, from the Greek root.<br />

petroselinum = petrosilinon<br />

petroselinus = petroselinum<br />

petroseus growing on stoney ground.<br />

petrosilinon = petrolselinon<br />

petrosus rocky, stony.<br />

petun French tobacco<br />

Petunia Petun'ia (pe-TUNE-ee-a) New Latin, from obsolete French petun tobacco, from Middle French petun,<br />

petum, from Tupi petyn, petyma, and New Latin -ia<br />

peuc-, peuca, -peuca, peuce, peuco Greek πεύκη, peuke, Pine, fir,<br />

Peucephyllum Peucephyl'lum (pew-se-FIL-um) Greek πεύκη, peuke, pine or fir, and phyllon, leaf<br />

peucedan, peucedanum Greek hog fennel, Peucedanum officinale. From modern Latin Peucedanum, a genus<br />

used by Linnaeus, from classical Latin peucedanum an umbelliferous plant, probably sulphurwort, from<br />

Hellenistic Greek πευκέδανον sulphurwort, from ancient Greek πεύκη, peuke, pine, and -εδανον, -edanon,<br />

suffix of uncertain origin; a reference to the plant’s bitterness and resinous-smelling seeds.<br />

peucedanifolius <strong>with</strong> leaves like the gum-ammoniac plant.

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