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Torricellia for Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), Italian physicist and microscopist, inventor of the
mercury barometer.
torrid- Latin dried up, parched
torridus -a -um frost bitten, dried up, as though dry, withered, or burnt, of very hot places, from torridus.
tors, torsi, torso Latin twist
tort, tort-, torti Latin twisted
torti-, tortilis -is -e, tortus -a -um twisted, from torqueo, torquere, torsi, tortum.
tortifolius -a -um tortifo'lius (tor-ti-FO-lee-us) leaves twisted; alternately with leaves as though turned in a
lathe(?).
tortilis -is -e tortil'is (tor-TIL-is) turned, twisted.
tortilus twisted, winding, tortuous
tortipes with a twisted stem.
tortipetalus -a -um having twisted petals, botanical Latin from tortilis and πεταλον.
tortipilis having twisted hairs.
tortri-, tortric-, tortrix, -tortrix Latin a tormentor; twisted
tortu- Latin winding, twisting
Tortula twisted, from tortus, for the 32 spirally twisted teeth of the peristome.
tortuosus -a -um much twisted, tortuous, winding, entangled.
tortus -a -um twisted, turned, winding, tortuous, from Latin tortus, a twisting, winding, crooked
torul-, toruli, torulus, -torulus Latin a hair tuft
torulinium tuft-like, from torulus, toruli.
torulosus -a -um somewhat torose, muscular, swollen or thickened at intervals, tufted, cylindrical with
(small) contractions or bulges at intervals, from Latin torosus, from torus protuberance, bulge, and -osus -ose,
possessive of torulus, toruli (or the diminutive of torosus); cylindrical, as a plant member with alternate
swellings and contractions
torus Latin torus, nuptial couch.
torus, -torus Latin muscle; a swelling
torus -a -um ornamental, mounded, bulging, knotted, from torus, tori, (fruits).
torv-, torvi Latin savage, fierce-eyed
torvus -a -um fierce, harsh, sharp, of a wild and fierce appearance, from Latin torvus, grim, frowning.
toryn, toryna, -toryna, toryni, toryno Greek a spoon
tosa Greek very
tosaensis -is -e from the area around Tosa Bay, Japan.
tot-, tota, toti Latin all
totan, totanus, -totanus Late Latin a moor hen
tottus from Tottenland or Sabrinaland, Antarctica.
Totum dependeat. Let it all hang out.
totus whole, entire.
Tournefortia, tournefortii tournefor'tii (tour-neh-FOR-tee-eye) for Joseph Pitton de Tournefortia (1656-1708),
Renaissance plant systematist and author of Institutiones rei berbariae (1710?)
Tourrettia for Marc Antione Louis Claret de la Tourrett (1729-1793), French naturalist and writer.
Tovara perhaps an allusion to the Tove, a species of badger, with smooth white hair, long hind legs, and the
short horns of a stag, living chiefly on cheese probably for the color of the seeds resembling the color of the
Tove’s hair, (after Lewis Carroll).
tovarensis -is -e from the Sierras Tovar, Venezuelan Andes. Possibly in reference to a member of the
prominent South American family, the de Tovars, (Tovar y Tovar) including an artist, a bishop, and a president
of Venezuela.
Tovaria for Simon de Tovar (1528-1596) of Seville, Spain, physician, botanist, and founder of a botanical
garden experimenting with acclimatization of plants, and the first in Europe to publish an annual catalog of
plants, the Index horti Tovarici, author of catalogues and lists of recently discovered New World plants, and
publisher of a book on the art of navigation. Tovar described many newly discovered American plants. I have
found nothing on Tovara, so I borrowed something from Lewis Carroll for fun. Get over it. (Quattrocchi gives
the origin of Tovaria, of the monogeneric Tovariaceae in Central and South America. The infructescences of
Tovara and Tovaria are vaguely similar in general appearance.)
Tovariaceae vide supra.
Townsendia, townsendii for David Townsend (1787–1858), Pennsylvania amateur botanist, USA.