A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

thinly, slenderly:

1. tenuiter (adv.), graciliter (adv.), exiliter (adv.), ‘thinly, meagerly, weakly, slenderly;’

- callus nunc tenuiter nunc crasse efferens, the callus now thinly now thickly produced.

2. rare (adv.), 'not densely, loosely; uncommonly, rarely'; sparse (adv.); subtiliter (adv.), ‘finely, precisely, delicately, thinly;’

- sporae rare papillatae, the spores lightly papillose.

- caulibus sparse foliatis, with the stems sparsely foliated.

- pilei subtiliter pubescentes, the pilei finely pubescent.

3. dilute (adv.), ‘faintly, pale;’

- caespites recentes dilute olivaceo-lutescentes sublubricae, young clumps [of an alga] pale (i.e. dilute) olivaceous yellow, somewhat slippery.

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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