A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

elapho-: in Gk. comp. fawn-colored (light brown tinged with yellow), tawny [> Gk. elaphos (s.(m.&f.) II), deer, Cervus elaphus, whether male, ‘hart’ or ‘stag’, or female, ‘hind’; also deerskin (Liddell & Scott)]; see deer; see alces,-is (s.f.III), elk.

NOTE: not elephas,-antis (s.m.III), q.v., elephant.

Cervus elaphus, the European red deer.

- elaphinus,-a,-um (adj.A): “same as ‘cervine’ (S&D), dark-tawny (the color of a deer).

Elaphoboscum; Elaphandra.

Elaphoglossum Schott ex J. Sm. (Dryopteridaceae), a fern genus with rhizome scales sometimes pink-gold to orange, stipe scales gold to brown, blade margins with golden hairs, golden to light brown blade-scales; Elaphoglossum,-i (s.n.II) > Gk. elaphos, a stag + glossa, a tongue; “in alusion to the shape of the fronds in some species.... Aspleniaceae” (Stearn 1996).

Elaphomyces, fungi, the Oval False Truffles or “Deer truffles,” a genus of hypogeous fungi.