[lit-ideas] Musa Sapientum -- and other Vegetables ("Green Linnaeus")
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:16:24 EDT
In a message dated 8/25/2004 5:58:24 PM Eastern Standard Time,
erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Ohhhh, okay. I see I had it all backwards. Gotcha.
I don't know the Latin for 'peach', but the latin for "banana" is "Musa
Sapientum", the muse of science (or the muse for those in the know).
I wonder if other fruits have such poetic scientific names. Apple, pear,
grape, grapefruit, watermelon. There must -- and I'm sure they are taxidermed
in
some museum of fruit and vegetable, somewhere.
Would be nice to have a checklist of the latin genus/species latin names for
the most common fruits (and vegetables) around -- to see if I can brush up
my Latin.
Cheers,
JL
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