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sursum Latin above, upward, upwards, directed upward and forward, opposite of deorsum<br />

sus, -sus from Latin sus, suis, a pig, from P.I.E. root *suǝ-, sū, pig.<br />

susatrensis -is -e susatren'sis (soo-mah-TREN-sis)<br />

suscept- Latin undertake<br />

susianus of the region of Susa, an ancient city of Persia.<br />

suspectus suspected (as being poisonous).<br />

susquehanae from the banks of the Susquehanna River, Pennsylvania.<br />

surculosus producing suckers<br />

suspensus suspended, hung, hanging downward perpendicularly.<br />

susurr Latin buzzing, whispering<br />

sutil Latin sewed together<br />

suttiei<br />

sutur-, sutura, -sutura Latin a seam, from sūtūra, a seam, from sūt-, past participle of suĕre, to sew.<br />

suturalis as though having a seam, from Latin sūtūra, a seam.<br />

Swallenia Swallen'ia (swa-LEEN-ee-a)<br />

swanii Charles Walter (Wally) Swan (1838-1921), a naval surgeon and early member of the New England<br />

Botanical Club<br />

Swertia Swer'tia (SWER-tee-a) New Latin, from Emanuel Swert (Sweert) (17th century Dutch botanist and New<br />

Latin -ia<br />

swinkii<br />

Syagrus classical name, derivation unknown, but a name used by Pliny for a kind of palm<br />

syba, sybaco, sybax, -sybax Greek hog-like<br />

sybari Greek mythology lascivious; voluptuary<br />

sybot Greek N a swineherd<br />

syc, syca, syci, syco, sycum, -sycum Greek a fig<br />

sycamin-, sycamino, sycaminus, sycaminus the mulberry, from late Latin sycamīnus, from Greek σῡκαµῑνον<br />

mulberry, σῡκαµῑνος mulberry tree adopted from Hebrew shiqmah (Aramic pl. shiqmīn), <strong>with</strong> assimilation to<br />

σῦκον fig.<br />

sycomorus the Sycamore Tree Ficus, Sycamorus, from σῡκαµῑνος, from σῦκον fig, and µόρον, mulberry. A<br />

very appropriate place for a µόρον / landscape architect joke. The leaves resemble a mulberry.<br />

sychn, sychno Greek many<br />

syg, syl Greek <strong>with</strong>, together<br />

syllab Greek that which holds or is held together; a syllable<br />

sylleg, syllego Greek gather<br />

sylleps, syllepsis, syllepsis Greek a putting together<br />

sylli New Latin a necklace<br />

syllog-, syllogi, syllogo Greek a gathering together, reckoning<br />

sylv, sylva, -sylva, sylvat, sylvestr, sylvi Latin woods, forest. See also the forms <strong>with</strong> silv-, which is probably<br />

older. The letter Y is a late introduction into the Roman alphabet to accommodate Greek loan words.<br />

sylvaticus -a -um of or growing in woods, belonging to woods, forest-loving, sylvan, wild, growing in the<br />

wild(?), from the Latin, sylva, woods, forest, and -aticus suffix indicating a place of growth (or habitat).<br />

sylvester, sylvestris, sylvestre growing in woods, wild, from Latin from sylvestris, of or belonging to the<br />

forest or woods, more correctly: silvestris, sometimes silvester, as the letter Y is a late borrowing in the Roman<br />

alphabet.<br />

sylvestris, sylvestris, sylvestre (declined slightly differently than the above) growing in woods, wild as<br />

opposed to cultivated, from Latin from sylvestris, of or belonging to the forest or woods, more correctly:<br />

silvestris, sometimes silvester<br />

sylvestrus, sylvester, sylvestris of woods or forests<br />

sylvicolus -a -um growing in woods<br />

sym- Greek <strong>with</strong>, together, from συµ-, an assimilated form of συν-, before labials β, µ, π, φ, ψ.<br />

sym-, syn- together, united, similarly, like, the latter a Latinized form of Greek συν-, σύν, <strong>with</strong>.<br />

symbio Greek living together<br />

Symblepharis Greek sym-, united, and blepharis, eyelash, referring to peristome teeth each parted in distal<br />

half into two ciliate divisions<br />

symmetr- Greek suitable; symmetry<br />

symp-, sympy Greek squeeze together

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