Dionaea

From: Richard Jobson (r.jobson@botany.uq.edu.au)
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 23:11:46 PST

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Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 18:11:46 +1100
From: "Richard Jobson" <r.jobson@botany.uq.edu.au>
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Subject: Dionaea

Hey How about Dione (loves) musca (flies) and puli (fleas) or loves
musc (flies) and ipola (worms) or or musca (fly) ipala (impaler) he
omitted the m. Loves musci (mice) and pula (paul)a. Joking
Thanks Paul for the great history of VFT.
Reference
'Dicks Concise Latin Dictionary'. Richard Head Press.

Muscipula derives from "mus" and "capio". Mus means "mouse"
and capio
> means "I capture", so the plant is in fact Venus's Mousetrap,
not, I say
> again, not flytrap (which would have to be written in Latin as
> "muscaria").
Richard W. Jobson
Department of Botany
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Queensland 4072
Australia.
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