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Plants with Arabic Names

Trees and flowers whose scientific names, used by botanists in every language, carry the name of a scholar who wrote in Arabic, or an Arabic word; and plants that carried their Arabic names into European languages.

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Avicennia Averrhoa Mesua

Why these cards?

Each card is a plant with its photograph, the scientific name of its genus, and where the name came from: a scholar who wrote in Arabic, or an Arabic word that physicians and copyists carried into Latin; where the scientific name is not Arabic, the European word that carried the Arabic one. Every card has at least two sources, among them Abdelali Wadghiri's al-ʿArabiyyāt al-Mughtariba.

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Avicennia
القُرْم
Averrhoa
الكَرَمْبولا
Mesua
شجرةُ الحديد