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- phalarope




- "A small wading or swimming bird with a straight bill and lobed feet, unusual in that the female is more brightly coloured than the male", Late 18th century: from French, from modern Latin Phalaropus, formed irregularly from Greek phalaris 'coot' + pous, pod- 'foot'.
- bryony




- "A climbing Eurasian hedgerow plant with lobed hairy leaves, red berries, and spring-like tendrils", Old English, via Latin from Greek bruōnia.
- foliose




- "(Of a lichen) having a lobed, leaf-like shape", Early 18th century: from Latin foliosus, from folium 'leaf'.
- Mentha




- "A genus of the family Lamiaceae (Labiatae), consisting of various strongly aromatic plants, especially herbs, with spikes or whorls of small lilac flowers having four equal stamens and a four-lobed corolla; (also mentha) a plant of this genus, a mint", Mid 18th cent.; earliest use found in Philip Miller (1691–1771), horticulturist and writer. From classical Latin mentha mint (adopted as a genus name by Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum II. 576, after J. Pitton de Tournefort Inst. Rei Herbariae I. 188).