New DEAL page on botanical terminology
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A new page on Greek & Latin in botanical terminology has been added to the Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life. The page has two sections. The first describes how to make plurals of scientific terms that have Greek and Latin endings. The second deals with botanical terminology. Specifically, it describes how learning some prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms commonly used in botanical terms can be helpful in remembering and figuring out the terms and their definitions. Many of these combining forms originate from Greek, less frequently from Latin. This page is based on handouts that I originally created when teaching undergraduate structural botany in order to help students master the extensive vocabulary.
Read the page here: https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/embryophytes/botanical-terminology/
