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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
debilis,-e (adj.B): weak, lame, disabled, crippled, infirm, debilitated, feeble, frail, faint, weak; syn: imbecillus, infirmus, invalidus; see flaccid, infirm; “weak, frail” (Stearn 1996); opp. vehemens,-entis (adj.B), violent, vigorous, powerful; [to be under an obligation both to and for something; cf. mitis,-e (adj.B), soft, yielding, mild, not harsh;

- caule debili, with a weak stem.

- debilipes, weak-stalked; see -footed.

- [fungi] sapor odorque mitis, debilis (S&A), taste and odor mild, weak.

- caulilbis debilibus prostratis hirtis post anthesin flexuoso-recurvis (Boissier), with the stems weak, prostrate, hirtous, after anthesis flexuose-recurved.

- caulibus elongatis 1 -2-pedalibus debilibus e fissuris rupium pendulis (Boissier), with the stems elongate, 1-2-feet, weak, dependent from the fissures of rocks.

- odor in recenti vehemens, penetrans: in languescente debilis (S&A), the odor in fresh [specimen] powerful, penetrating: in withering specimens, feeble.

Anthurium debilipeltatum Croat "the petiole making the blade appear weakly peltate (hence the epithet “debilipeltatum”)."

debilitans,-antis (part.B): weakening, crippling, maiming, disabling [> L. debilito,-avi,-atum, 1. to lame, cripple, maim, to debilitate, unnerve, disable, weaken.

debilitatus,-a,-um (part.A): weakened, crippled, maimed, disabled [> L. debilito,-avi,-atum, 1. to lame, cripple, maim, to debilitate, unnerve, disable, weaken.

 

A work in progress, presently with preliminary A through R, and S, and with S (in part) through Z essentially completed.
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