A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

vicinus,-a,-um (adj.A): near, neighboring; living in the vicinity or neighborhood of; situated close to one another; “nearly resembling in quality or nature; like, similar, kindred, allied” (Lewis & Short); + abl., ‘near to;’ see adjacent; opp. remotus,-a,-um (part.A);

- ex vicino, from close up (Glare); also of a similar nature (to).

- in vicino: in the vicinity, close at hand (Glare).

- [fungus] crescit in pinetis vicinis passim sparsa; in betuletis graminosis submontanis remotis (ad radicem montis Sohlandensis) frequens (S&A), it grows in close-set pine forests everywhere scattered, in scattered grassy submontane Betula forests (on the root of mount Sohlandensis), frequent.

- in area fulcro vicina sterili, in the area near to the sterile support.

- corpuscula 2, subrotundo-lenticularia, antice hirta, ovario vicina, in carinae basi saccata arcte recepta (B&H), ovules 2, nearly rounded to lens-shaped, antically hirtous, adjacent to the ovary, saccate at the base, closely sheltered in a keel.

- (algae) tribum ita justis limitibus circumscriptam, classem a vicinis Lichenibus et Fungís aeque distinctam dies postera forsan monstrabit (Agardh), after the tribe thus circumscribed by their rightful limits, a future day shall perhaps demonstrate a uniformly distinct class from near the Lichens and Fungi.

- copiose nascentem inveniebat Clusius vicinis Nemethwywar Ill. Balthasaris de Batthyan arci caeduarum sylvarum declivibus (Ray), Clusius found it growing abundantly at Nemethwywar in declivities of the forests ‘fit for cutting’ [i.e. underwood, coppice wood] near to the castle of the illustrious Balthasar Batthyany.

Vicinus,-i (s.n.II), abl. sg. vicino: a neighbor; (of time) a contemporary; also fem. vicina,-ae (s.f.I);

- [moss] seminula itidem sunt fusca, rotunda, nonnunquam quibusdam pressione forsitan vicinorum, in ovatam figuram reductis (Hedw.) the seminula (i.e. spores] in like manner, are blackish-brown, rounded, sometimes perhaps by certain of its neighbors, with pressure, reduced into an ovate shape.