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situs, situs n. Latin noun, situation, position, site; structure; neglect, disuse, stagnation; mold.<br />

sium, -sium Greek a marsh plant<br />

Sium New Latin, from Greek sion, a marsh plant, perhaps the water parsnip or marshwort; alternately Celtic<br />

siw, water, an allusion to the aquatic nature. (Umbelliferae)<br />

sk (see also sc)<br />

skantzíki from Greek σκαντζίκι, skantziki, chervil.<br />

Skat-, skato Greek dung<br />

Skelet-, skeleto Greek a dried body, skeleton<br />

skelo Greek a leg<br />

skeptic, skeptico Greek reflective, observant<br />

skia Greek a shadow<br />

Skimmia from the Japanese name Shikimi<br />

skinneriana<br />

skiro Greek a white parasol<br />

skirrophorus forming bell-like protuberances.<br />

skler, sklero Greek hard<br />

skor, skatos n. Greek, dung, ordure; skatol, scatology, scatomancy, scatophagi.<br />

Skórdo, skórodon from Greek σκόρδο, σκόροδον, skordo, skordon, garlic, see also scord-.<br />

skybalon n. Greek dung; skybaliktos, dirty, mean.<br />

Smallanthus for John Kunkel Small (1869–1938), American taxonomist, botanical explorer, and curator at<br />

the New York Botanical Gardens, and ἄνθος, anthos, flower.<br />

smalliana as above?<br />

smallii as above?<br />

smaragd-, smargado Greek an emerald<br />

smaragdinus -a -um of emerald, emerald green, clear bright green, from Latin smaragdus, smargadi m.,<br />

green percious stone, emerald, beryl, jasper (smarados -i, m.)<br />

smari, smaris, -smaris Greek a small sea fish<br />

smegma, -smegma, smegmato Greek a soapy secretion; a cleansing substance, from Latin smēgma, smēgatis,<br />

adapted from Greek σµῆγµα, smechma, a detergent, soap, or unguent, from σµήχειν, smechein.<br />

smegma, smegmatis n. latin noun, ointment; cleansing preparation; fine slag from copper melting.<br />

smerinth, smerintho, smerinthus, -smerinthus Greek a cord, string<br />

smi-l, smila, -smila, smilo Greek a carving knife<br />

smila-, smilac-, smilax, -smilax Greek yew; bindweed, from σµῖλαξ, smilax, bindweed.<br />

smilac- referring to the genus Smilax, Greenbriar<br />

smilacifolius <strong>with</strong> leaves like Smilax.<br />

Smilacina Smilaci'na (smi-la-SY-na) New Latin, resembling Smilax, from Smilax, the classical Latin name<br />

smīlax, in Pliny, from Greek σµῖλαξ, smilax, bindweed, and -īnus -a -um, Latin adjectival suffix indicating<br />

possession or resemblance; in one source as the diminutive of Smilax. (Liliacaea)<br />

smilacinus -a -um of smilax, like or resembling Smilax, from Smilax, the classical Latin name smīlax, in Pliny,<br />

from Greek σµῖλαξ, smilax, bindweed, and -īnus -a -um, Latin adjectival suffix indicating possession or<br />

resemblance.<br />

Smilax (SMEE-laks) from the classical Latin name smīlax, in Pliny, from Greek σµῖλαξ, smilax, bindweed,<br />

etc., New Latin, from Latin, a kind of oak, yew, bindweed, from Greek; perhaps akin to Greek smilē woodcarving<br />

knife; from the use of oak in carving. (Smilaceae)<br />

sminth-, sminthus, -sminthus Greek a field mouse<br />

smithii after Jared Gage Smith (1866-1925), a botanist and agrostologist <strong>with</strong> the USDA, assistant professor<br />

of botany at the College of Hawaii.<br />

smodi, smodic, smoding, smodix, -smodix Greek a swollen bruise<br />

smyrna, -ae, f. see also smyrrhiza, myrrh, from Greek T. Lucretius Carus Note: Smyrna, -ae f. is a<br />

famous trading town on the coast of Ionia thought to be the place whence Homer sprang (Cassell: p. 528<br />

(1958)<br />

smyrnaeus from Smyrna or Aden in Asia Minor.<br />

smyrrhiza see also smyrna, myrrh, from , and ῥίζα, rhiza, root.<br />

sobar, sobaro Greek arrogant; violent<br />

sobol, sobol-, soboles, soboles, soboli referring to offspring from Latin a sprout, shoot, from sobolēs,<br />

subolēs, from sub under, and *olēre to grow; or soboles, sobolis f., shoot, sucker; race; offspring; progeny.

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