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Mabberley's Plant-book is internationally accepted as an essential reference text for anyone studying, growing or writing about plants. With some 26,000 entries, this comprehensive dictionary provides information on every family and genus of seed-bearing plant (including conifers), plus ferns and clubmosses, besides economically important mosses and algae. The book combines taxonomic details and uses with English and other vernacular names found in commerce. The third edition was recognised in the American Botanical Council's annual James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award for 2008 and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy's Engler Medal in Silver for 2009. In this new edition, each entry has been updated to take into consideration the most recent literature, notably the greater understanding resulting from molecular analyses; over 1400 additional entries (including ecologically and economically important genera of seaweeds) have been included, ensuring that Mabberley's Plant-book continues to rank among the most practical and authoritative botanical texts available.
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Mabberley's Plant-book is internationally accepted as an essential reference text for anyone studying, growing or writing about plants. With some 26,000 entries, this comprehensive dictionary provides information on every family and genus of seed-bearing plant (including conifers), plus ferns and clubmosses, besides economically important mosses and algae. The book combines taxonomic details and uses with English and other vernacular names found in commerce. The third edition was recognised in the American Botanical Council's annual James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award for 2008 and the International Association for Plant Taxonomy's Engler Medal in Silver for 2009. In this new edition, each entry has been updated to take into consideration the most recent literature, notably the greater understanding resulting from molecular analyses; over 1400 additional entries (including ecologically and economically important genera of seaweeds) have been included, ensuring that Mabberley's Plant-book continues to rank among the most practical and authoritative botanical texts available.
Plants --- Plant names, Popular --- English language --- Botanical names --- Botanical nomenclature --- Botany --- Latin names of plants --- Latin plant names --- Names of plants, Scientific --- Plant names, Latin --- Plant names, Scientific --- Plant species --- Scientific names of plants --- Scientific plant names --- Names --- Germanic languages
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Este libro estudia las voces amerindias prehispánicas, procedentes del ámbito de la alimentación, incorporadas a veintitrés lenguas europeas. Los préstamos son de las lenguas taína, caribe, náhuatl, quechua y aimara. La primera sección del volumen gira en torno a la llegada de productos vegetales americanos a Europa, el proceso de denominación de los nuevos alimentos de procedencia americana y la transmisión de las denominaciones amerindias en textos de tema americano. Las secciones siguientes se centran en la adopción y adaptación de las voces elegidas en las lenguas románicas, germánicas, eslavas, ugrofinesas, griega y turca.
Food crops --- Plants, Edible --- Plant names, Popular --- Indians --- Terminología. --- Alimentos --- Food --- Field crops --- Horticultural crops --- Indian languages --- Aborigines, American --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Amerindians --- Amerinds --- Pre-Columbian Indians --- Precolumbian Indians --- Ethnology --- Indigenous peoples --- Botany --- Common names of plants --- Common plant names --- Names of plants, Popular --- Plant species --- Plants --- Popular names of plants --- Popular plant names --- Vernacular names of plants --- Vernacular plant names --- Edible plants --- Food plants --- Plants, Useful --- Edible landscaping --- Terminology. --- Nomenclature (Popular) --- Languages. --- Lenguaje. --- Civilization --- Names (Popular) --- Europe --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Languages --- Foreign words and phrases. --- #KVHA:Taalkunde; Spaans --- #KVHA:Historische linguïstiek; Spaans en Europese talen --- #KVHA:Voedingsmiddelen --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Cooking --- Diet --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Nutrition --- Primitive societies
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Cet ouvrage, consacré aux plantes cultivées à Madagascar avant l'arrivée des Européens au XVIe siècle, retrace l'histoire de leur domestication dans leur aire d'origine et leurs trajectoires vers Madagascar, puis à l'intérieur de l'île. Il s'appuie sur une approche transdisciplinaire, combinant linguistique, génétique, archéologie, histoire, ethnographie et agronomie. Les Austronésiens qui arrivèrent à Madagascar vers le VIIIe siècle apportèrent des plantes du Sud-Est asiatique et des systèmes culturaux bien adaptés aux côtes Nord et Est de l'île, ainsi qu'à une partie des Hautes Terres. Les populations africaines, qui se fixèrent surtout dans un premier temps sur la côte Ouest et dans le Sud, au climat plus sec, introduisirent quant à elles des plantes du continent noir, mais aussi d'autres venues de l'Inde, de l'Asie occidentale et de l'Asie du Sud-Est. Au fil des siècles, de nombreuses plantes ont connu des introductions répétées, et l'ensemble de l'océan Indien a contribué aux apports des plantes cultivées à Madagascar. Leurs voyages ont suivi ceux des marins et des commerçants dans un océan qui représenta, comme la Méditerranée de Fernand Braudel, un espace culturel tissé par les mouvements des hommes : l'existence d'un commerce transcontinental allant de la Chine à l'est de la Méditerranée et à l'Afrique de l'Est donna aux pays de l'océan Indien une unité historique.
Ethnobotany --- Plants --- Botany --- Plant names, Popular --- 581.9 <6> --- 581.9 <6> Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--Afrika --- Geographic botany. Plant geography (phytogeography). Floras. Geographic distribution of plants--Afrika --- Common names of plants --- Common plant names --- Names of plants, Popular --- Plant species --- Popular names of plants --- Popular plant names --- Vernacular names of plants --- Vernacular plant names --- Flora --- Plant kingdom --- Plantae --- Vascular plants --- Vegetable kingdom --- Vegetation --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Adaptation --- Names (Popular) --- Madagascar --- Madagaskar --- Democratic Republic of Madagascar --- Repoblika Demokratika n'i Madagaskar --- Repoblika Demokratika Malagasy --- République démocratique de Madagascar --- RDM --- Repoblikan'i Madagasikara --- République de Madagascar --- Repoblikan'i Madakasikara --- Madagasikara --- Republic of Madagascar --- マダガスカル --- Madagasukaru --- מדגסקר --- Malagasy Republic --- History. --- Relations. --- Plantes cultivées --- Plantes --- Provenance
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