Rácz, János: Clover and nose in botany
This paper describes the history, geographical distribution, and etymology of some anthropomorphic and zoomorphic terms of phytology. It discusses the motivation of Hungarical botanical nomenclature and documents changes of meanings over the past few centuries in herbaria and botanical handbooks. The first part involves botanical terms based on the word here 'clover', a word of Uralic origin. The second part deals with terms - these are mainly metaphorical compounds - based on another item of the ancient vocabulary, orr 'nose'. The motivation for these names was the resemblance between some part of these plants and a nose (or a bird's beak). The author also gives foreign-language parallels, classical sources where appropriate, loan translations, and co-names with respect to the Hungarian plant names discussed. The identification of the plants involved is facilitated by the Latin binomial (genus/species) terms as they are used in the contemporary literature of botanics.