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fen-es-tra tum (Latin), windowed, with holes and openings in the surface; 
- Wer-gus-so’-ni + (com.) of W. Fergusson, author of List of Ceylon Timber trees : 
Fe-ro-ni-a ... ... (clas) Férinia, goddess of the woods and groves, connected 
with férdlis (Latin), relating to the dead ; (all:) possibly, to 
it being planted near burning and burial grounds (N 2/1: 
Cass, Lat, Dic.); 
fer-ox’ (Latin), terrible,usually implying full of thorns, or very poison- 
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fer’-ré-a (Latin), of iron, steely, either in consistence or colour; if the 
latter, passing from purple, sometimes with a tinge of brown 
to deep blue, and with a metallic lustre ; 
fer-rug-in’-e-us .» (Latin), rusty coloured, dull light reddish brown (lighter than 
rubiginosus) ; 
fi-bro’-sus (Latin), fibrous, containing a large proportion of loose woody 
fibres ; 
fi-cif-or’-mis ... ... (Latin), fig shaped ; 
fi-cul’-ne-us_..- ... (Latin), belonging. to or resembling, the Fig tree ; 
Fi -cus 
(Latin), old name used by Horace, Cicero, and others (N. 2/11 
Cass. Lat. Dic) ; 
fi’-lam-en-to’-sa ... (Latin), with fibre-like threads (H.) ; 
fil-ic’-if-ol’-i-a ... (Latin), with leaves like a fern ; 
Fil-ic’-i-um ... ... Filia (Latin), a fern; ‘all:) the pinnated leaves with winged 
rachis ; 
fi-lif’-er-a ee ... (Latin), thread bearing ; 
fi-lif-or’mis ... jilum, forma (Latin), thread, likeness; slender like a thread; 
fi -lip-és er ... « (Latin), thread footed, very thinly stalked ; 
fil-ix-fve’-min-a ... (Latin), female fern ; 
fil’-ix-mas’ ee. (Latin), male fern ; 
fim-bri-a’-ta -- (Latin), fringed, with a border of thread-like processes, thicker 
than hairs, see ciliate (H.) ; 
(Latin), split wp; aivided nearly to the base into a determinate 
number of segments ; 
Fis-tul-a ane ... (Latin), a pipe, or tube ; 
fla-bel’-lif-er ... fidbellum [diminutive of fiabrum (Latin) breeze], fero (Latin), 
fan, to bear ; ‘ 
fla-bel’-lif-or’-mis ... (Latin), jan shaped ; 
flac’-cid-um ... ... (Latin), imp, wanting in stiffness (H.) ; 
Fla-cour’-ti-a (com.) Etienne de Flacowrt [(pr:) Ay-tee-yender Flar-coor } 
1607-1661, Director of French East India Company (N. 2/7) ; 
(Latin), fiagellum, whip thong; (all:) elongated stem and 
lanceolate leaves ending in spiral tendrils ; 
Flag-el-la’-ri-a-ce-2. (Latin), Flagellaria Family, or Order ; 
fis’-sum 
Flag-el-la’-ri-a 
flag-el-la’-ris... .. ) (Latin), whip-like, long and tapering like a whip thong, 
flag-el’-lif-or’-mis ; (N. 2/17); 
flam’me-a ...» (Latin), flame coloured, scarlet passing almost to orange, bright 
and clear [same as ignea}; 
flam’-mul-a ... ... (Latin), little fame; 
fla’-va Be es fees pale yellow, between gamboge and lemon yellow, pure 
fla-ves’cens : but withont brightness; canary-yellow : 
fla-vo’-virens (Latin), yellowish-green; when slichtly tinted yellow, pea- 
green, when light generally, hut dull, sap green; vhen much 
stained with yellow, anda dull, dead colour. moss-green ; 
(com.) Dr. John Fleming; Botanist and Physician General of 
Bengal (Ch.) ; 
fle-x’il-is ord ... (Latin), flexible ; 
flex-u-’o-sa_... (Latin), twisting about; gently bending alternately inwards 
- and outwards; 
.. (Latin), floceose, covered with close woolly hairs, which fall 
away in little tufts (N. 2/17) ; 
flo’-ra-lis Ka ... (Latin), floral, of, or belonging to. the flower ; 
flo-ré-ple’-no .. (Latin), double flowered, petals multiplied so as to fill up the 
whole flower ; 
flo’-rib-un’-da w. (Latin), bundle flowered (N. 4/215) ; 
flo-rid-a ser w. (Latin), rich in flowers ; 
Flem-ing’-i-a ... 
floc-co’-sa 
