A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Tide: aestus,-us (s.m.IV), q.v., acc. sg. aestum, abl. sg. aestu, nom. & acc. pl. aestus, abl., gen. pl. aestuum, dat. & abl. pl. aestibus; see current;

- alga in saxis inter marinorum aestuum accessum et recessum emersis crescens, seaweed growing on rocks between flow and ebb of the sea tides exposed.

- in lacubus minuente aestu relictis, in pools left at the ebbing of the tide.

Fluxus,-us (s.m.IV), abl. sg. fluxu: flow, flux, a flowing, fluid; a current, the tide;

- flexuus atque refluxus maris, flow and ebb of the sea (Stearn 1983).

- ad saxa, muros, terram, palos, paulo infra limitem superiorem fluxus in Oceano Atlantico; on rocks, walls, earth, pales, a little below the upper limit of the tide in the Atlantic Ocean (Stearn).

- [Tremella marina caespitosa] super rupes, quas fluxus maris attingit, mihi observata haec species (Dill.), this species observed by me upon rocks which stretch as far as the flow [i.e. tide] of the sea.

Refluxus,-us (s.m.IV), abl.sg. refluxu: ebb, back flow (of the tide), ebbtide;

- [algae] Hab. ad rupes a luce absconditas plerumque abruptas currentibusque expositas in inferiore refluxus limite maris-Mediterranei (Agardh), it grows on rocks hidden from the light and usually steep and exposed by the currents in the lower limit of the [tidal ebb or backflow] of the Mediterranean sea.