Glossary:
5 August 2012 - 8:18am — Andrewm
Can we have a page with a glossary? I seem to spend half my life looking up words, the latest being "apotheca" - A disk-shaped or cup-shaped ascocarp of some lichens and the fungi Ascomycetes.
It would be great to have a dictionary page with words and their meanings - starting with apotheca moving to ascocarp; whizzing to glaucus and glumes; and then ending triumphantly with zygomorphic, all in alphabetic order with their definitions.
It would make me happy!
Groups:
Lovely idea, but the wheel is already invented
A splendid idea, except for the poor sucker who has to compile it! Unless we compile it collectively, but that becomes an editorial nightmare.
What is wrong with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_botanical_terms
or
http://florabase.dec.wa.gov.au/help/glossary
or
http://academic.kellogg.edu/herbrandsonc/bio111/glossary/glossary.htm
to name but the top three that Google offered and I checked.
Ok. It would have kept it 'in
Ok. It would have kept it 'in house' so to speak, but now that the links are here, there is no real need for it.
wonderful words
If JK Rowling had heard about glaucus and glumes, it would be a thriving little business on Diagon Alley.
Laura