Scientific names

[TheAlphaWolf]

Hi. I love scientific names (no confusion) but sometimes they're HARD!!!!
(EX. bryophyllum crenatodaigremontiana ... that's just ridiculous!) but it SURE helps if you know a little bit of latin.
(ex. rubra means red, purpurea means purple, alba means white, pod means foot, cephalo is head, etc etc etc.)
so I was wondering if some of you couldn't post some scientific names and what they mean. I think it would be interesting.

 

[Clint]

http://www.flytrap.demon.co.uk/cpdict.htm

that whole page pretty much tells you everything you'd want to know.

 

[Bugweed]

So much for that!!!

 

[TheAlphaWolf]

oh that's great!!!!
now it'll be a piece of cake!

 

[jimscott]

Hugeous appetitis: Wyle E. Coyote!

 

[TheAlphaWolf]

anybody know what the E. stands for?

 

[jimscott]

Hmmm, ya got me there! Does anybody remember the road runner's faux scientific name? It hink the genus name was Fastus, or somthing to that effect.

 

[superimposedhope]

I remember there was a genius in there somewhere.

Joe

 

[jimscott]

That WAS Wyle E. Coyote. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Wyle E. Cotote, Super Genius. I am not selling encyclopedias and I am not putting myself through college. And I will give you the usual 3 minutes to say your prayers." Or something to that effect. Remember when his character was going to his 9->5 job with a sheepdog, punching the clock, beating up on each other, referring to themselves as Ralph & Sam? "Mornin' Ralph. Mornin' Sam."

 

[TheAlphaWolf]

so it didn't stand for anything? kind of like harry S. truman's "S"?

 

[jimscott]

Possibly, I don't know. I thought maybe you knew something I didn't!

 

[Starman]

I know the meanings!! Flava means yellow, Rubra means red, purpurea means purple,leucophylla means white topped, minor means smaller or somehwat less significant, gigantea means bigger or more significant, alata means ala or wing, psitacina means parrot or parrot shaped.
Dino

 

[BigCarnivourKid]

Wyle E. is a wordplay. Wyle E. = wily = "crafty or cunning".