A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

-dora,-ae (s.f.I) and -dorus,-i (s.m.II), in Gk. comp.; see dor-, doro-.

NOTE: the ‘o’ in the noun is an omicron (but an omega in dor-, doro-, q.v. ‘gift’).

NOTE: not to be confused with L. combinations in odor,-oris (s.m.III), an odor; see -odorus,-a,-um (adj.A), in L. comp. -scented; e.g. - anisodorus,-a,-um (adj.A), anise-scented (see anisum,-i (s.n.II).

NOTE: the ‘-o-’ in the following compounds is the connecting vowel:

1. -dora,-ae (s.f.I): [> Gk. dora (s.f.I) “skin when taken off [i.e. flayed], hide (as of beasts, birds and men; the skins of grapes (Liddell & Scott)].

Monodora,,-ae (s.f.I): from monos, one, and dora, a skin; in allusion to the fruit being one-celled. (Paxton); Ovarium globosum, uniloculare (B&H), ovary globose, with one locule.

2. -dorus,-i (s.m.II) [> Gk. doros (s.m.II), “leathern bag or wallet” (Liddell & Scott)].

Echinodorus,-i (s.m.II), > Gk. echinus, rough husk + doros, a leathern bottle “applied to the ovary, which is in most species armed with the persistent style, forming a sort of prickly head of fruit” (Fernald (1950); “referring to the spiny achenes” (Stearn 1996).

NOTE: both suffices derive from Gk. verb derO (also deirO), (of animals), to skin, flay; to have one’s skin flayed off, to flay; (in anatomy), separate by avulsion (Liddell & Scott).