[lojban] Re: leleshwa

[Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org>]

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.

-Robin

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