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anatus -a -um, banaticus -a -um, bannaticus of the Banat area, parts of southern Hungary, Romania, and<br />

Vojvodina, Yugoslavia.<br />

bancanus -a -um from the Isle of Pulau Banca (Banka, Bangka) in Sumatra, Indonesia, formerly Dutch<br />

India.<br />

bancus, banci m. Latin a species of fish.<br />

bandaensis -is -e from the islands surrounding the Banda Sea, Indonesia.<br />

Banisteria, banisteri fro Reverend Jonh Baptist Banister (1650-1692), English botanist in Virginia.<br />

Banksia, banksianus -a -um, banksii for Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), plant collector who accompanied<br />

Captain Cook, adviser to the Royal Gardens at Kew, president of the Royal Society, and patron of the sciences.<br />

Rosa banksiae is named after the missus.<br />

banksiae for Lady Dorothea Banks, wife of Sir Joseph Banks. Rosa banksiae was sent to England by the<br />

kew collector William Kerr, in 1807 from China.<br />

banksiopsis looking similar to Rosa banksiae, from and ancient Greek ὄψις, opsis, appearance, sight, view.<br />

bantamensis -is -e from Bantam in Java<br />

banília, baníllia from Greek βανίλια, banilia, βανίλλια, banillia, vanilla.<br />

banyan, banian a name from Sir Thomas Herbert, referring to the use an individual tree by Indian traders as<br />

a place of worship near Gambroon, from vanija,meaning merchant, in 1628. Adapted from Portuguese banian,<br />

probably from Arabic banyān (16th c.), adopted from Gujarātī vāṇiyo, man of the trading caste, from Sanscrit<br />

vaṇij merchant, plural vāṇiyān; the Indian Fig Tree, Ficus religiosa or F. indica.<br />

baobab from a vernacular name from some central African language recorded by Prospero Alpini in his De<br />

Plantis Aegypti, (Venice, 1592), De Bahobab, who speaks of the fruit’s use “in Æthiopia”. Adansonia<br />

digitata, Monkey bread.<br />

baoulensis -is -e from Baoule, Ivory Coast, west Africa, or from the Baoule tributary of the Niger river,<br />

Mali.<br />

bap-, baph-, bapt-, baptis Greek dye; dip; baptize<br />

bap-, bapt-, baptis- Greek βαπτιζω, baptiso, plunge, dip.<br />

baphe-, bapheus Greek βαφευς, bapheus, Latin bapheus, baphei m., a dyer.<br />

Baphia from Greek βαφευς, bapheus, dyer; cam-wood, Baphia nitida yields a red dye, also used for violin<br />

bows.<br />

baphicantus -a -um of the dyers, dyers’, dye-producing, from Greek βαφευς, βαφη, bapheus, baphe.<br />

Baptisia (bap-TIS-ee-a) from Greek βάπτω, bapto, dying, βαπτίζειν, baptizein, to baptise, to immerse, bathe,<br />

wash, drench, βάπτειν, baptein, to dip, plunge, bathe; some species used as a poor grade indigo dye, as a<br />

substitute for Indigofera tinctoria. (Leguminosae)<br />

bapto- Greek βαπτος, baptos, dipped, died, Latin baptizo, baptizare, to baptize, to immerse.<br />

bar-, baro, barus, -barus Greek βαρος, baros, pressure; weight, a burden, a load.<br />

bar-, baro-, bary Greek βαρυς, barus, heavy in weight, grievous, oppressive, severe.<br />

bar-, baros Greek βαρος, baros, a weight, burden, load.<br />

barb-, barba-, -barba Latin barba, a beard.<br />

barba, barbae f. Latin beard/ whiskers; large unkempt beard (pl.); Jovis barba is the shrub Anthyllis barba.<br />

barbacensis -is -e from the area around Barbacena, Minas Gerais, Brasil.<br />

barbadensis -is -e from the isle of Barbados in West India, native to Barbados; or from the Barbary Coast of<br />

north Africa.<br />

barba-jovis Jove’s-beard, Jupiter’s-beard, from Latin barba, barbae, and iovis.<br />

barbar-, barbaro- Latin barbarus, Greek βαρβαρος, barbaros, foreign, strange, uncultivated, rough.<br />

Barbarea Barbar'ea (bar-BARE-ee-a) Herba Sanctae Barbarae New Latin, from St. Barbara, who discovered<br />

the now unknown medicinal properties of the plants, and New Latin -ea, from Lyte’s translation of Dodoens’<br />

Herba Sanctae Barbarae. A 3rd century martyr, she professed a belief in Christ, St. Barbara was beheaded by her<br />

wealthy heathen father Dioscorus. (Cruciferae)<br />

Barbarossa Italian cv. Red Beard<br />

barbarus -a -um Latin adjective, foreign, strange, also barbarous and uncivilized, uncultivated, rough,<br />

savage, cruel; used by or typical of foriegners; from the Barbary Coast of Africa, from Berber in the Sudan;<br />

from Latin barbaria, for outside Greece, for the North African Coast.<br />

barbarus, barbari m. Latin noun, a barbarian, uncivilized person; foreigner, someone who is not Greek or<br />

Roman.<br />

barbat- Latin bearded, from barbatus, bearded.

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