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    The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms - Second Edition
    The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms - Second Edition
    The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms - Second Edition
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    The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms - Second Edition

    By Henk Beentje and Juliet Williamson

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    If asked to describe a plant, many of us would have to resort to basic descriptors such as vague shapes or simple colors. But for those who work and write in the plant world, there are thousands of terms available for crafting the perfect characterization. A pear’s shape can be called pyriform, while lemon’s form is prolate. A petal might range from caesious (pale blue-grey or -green) to ceraceous (pale cream) to cinerous (ash grey). And the autumnal spread of fallen leaves is called, elegantly, leaf litter.

    The Kew Plant Glossary is a comprehensive guide to the myriad of terms used in the identification and conservation of plants. This new edition adds more than four hundred new entries, including a vegetation-type section, bringing the total to 4,905 botanical terms and seven hundred illustrations. The terms are clearly explained, many with basic line drawings to further clarify a description. Henk Beentje consulted a host of botanical works as well as colleagues working in the field to create a glossary that is clear, easy to use, and free of confusion. He notes terms that are easily mixed up with others and points out phrases that are considered outside common usage.

    This is an essential companion for anyone who finds themselves searching for the right word when writing about plants, who needs to clearly identify the pieces of their work, or who just wants to talk more authoritatively about the plants they love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoyal Botanic Gardens, Kew
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781842466056
    The Kew Plant Glossary: An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms - Second Edition

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      Possibly one of the most useful glossaries I have seen in a long time, with good, clear and greatly useful definitions, drawing a distinction between rare or outdated terms and those in actual use, as well as specifying which group they are used for (something that cannot be said of Stearn's Botanical Latin or Harris & Harris' Plant Identification Terminology). It would still gain from a better "perspective" approach to various aspects of terminological confusion regarding, for example, the terminology applied to leaf apices.

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