Re: [lojban] latna: Lotus or Nelumbo?

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 12:55 AM 10/25/01 -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> Wading through pages about corporate taxonomy software by Lotus, I found that
> there are two completely different plants called lotus: the genus Lotus,
> which is in the family Fabaceae, and the genus Nelumbo, in the family
> Nelumbonaceae. The flattish seed head with some twenty holes with a seed in
> each is Nelumbo. Which is latna?

genus Nymphaea is the one listed in my dictionary which has 
religio-cultural significance (which is why it is in the gismu list).  But 
if one of the other genera also has religious significance, it would also 
fit.  latna is not primarily a taxonomic thing, but a cultural word.  I 
could imagine it being used for any religio-culturally significant plant 
with lujvo to distinguish them.

lojbab
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