A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

bothr-, bothri-, bothro-; -bothrys,-ydis (s.f.III); -bothrus,-a,-um (adj.A): in Gk. comp. pitted, trenched [> Gk. bothros (s.m.II), a hole, trench or pit dug in the ground; a trough, hollow (Liddell & Scott); bothros, n. pl. bothroi archeol.: “a hole or pit into which drink offerings to the nether gods were poured by the ancient Greeks” (WIII); dim. bothrion (s.n.II); see pitted.

Bothriospermum (Boraginaceae); Bothriocline (Asteraceae); Bothriospora (Rubiaceae); [fungus] Bothrodiscus.

Bothrenchyma,-atis (s.n.III), abl. sg. bothrenchymate: “the pitted, or dotted, or so-called porous tissue of plants” (Lindley); “tissue composed of dotted or pitted ducts or cells” (Jackson) [> Gk. bothros, a pit + enchyma, that poured in (Jackson); see -enchyma,-atis (s.n.III), abl. sg. -enchymate. to do etymology Gk.

Vasiform tissue: “ducts; tubes having the appearance of spiral vessels, and bothrenchyma” (Lindley).

Plagiobothrys (s.f.III) to do > Gk. plagios, oblique, placed sideways + bothros, a pit. “In allusion to the scar on the nutlet. Boraginaceae” (Stearn 1996).

    singular 
Nom.  Plagiobothrys
Gen.  Plagiobothrydis
Dat.  Plagiobothrydi
Acc.  Plagiobothrydem
Abl.  Plagiobothryde

Vas (gen.sg. vasis (s.n.III) porosum, V. punctatum, abl. pl. vasibus porosis, vasibus punctatis “are the dotted vessels which constitute bothrenchyma” (Lindley); see vas, vasis (s.n.III), see -enchyma,-atis (s.n.III).

NOTE: not to be confused with botr-: in Gk. comp., bunch, raceme.

Bothrium,-i (s.n.II), abl.sg. bothrio; > Gk. bothrion, small pit, dim. of bothros, pit; “a slit, groove, or depression est. on the holdfast of a pseudophyllidean tapeworm” (WIII).

Bothridium,-ii (s.n.II), abl.sg. bothridio: “one of the outgrowths from the head of tapeworms of the order Tetraphyllidea that act as holdfasts” (WIII).