From phma@webjockey.net Wed Mar 17 17:12:43 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 20961 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2004 01:12:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m11.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 18 Mar 2004 01:12:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blackcat.ixazon.lan) (208.150.110.21) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Mar 2004 01:12:42 -0000 Received: by blackcat.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E7BCD4B98; Thu, 18 Mar 2004 01:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: dis To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 20:12:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200403171932.20862.phma@webjockey.net> <200403171957.21111.phma@webjockey.net> <20040318010403.GF11847@digitalkingdom.org> In-Reply-To: <20040318010403.GF11847@digitalkingdom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200403172012.40574.phma@webjockey.net> X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 208.150.110.21 From: Pierre Abbat Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: leleshwa X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=92712300 X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 21704 On Wednesday 17 March 2004 20:04, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 07:57:21PM -0500, Pierre Abbat wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 March 2004 19:38, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > > tarxonanto, from the genus name Tarchonanthus. Someone explained > > > > this as meaning "funeral flower", but he's not sure why. > > > > > > Can't use the species name? > > > > The species name is "camphoratus". ITIS doesn't list any camphoratus, > > but it does list species called camphorata, camphoratum, and camphora. > > I'd say use the shortest of those, then. I meant it lists species *of other genera* - it doesn't list Tarchonanthus at all. I've read there are a few other species of Tarchonanthus. phma -- .i toljundi do .ibabo mi'afra tu'a do .ibabo damba do .ibabo do jinga .icu'u la ma'atman.