Biology (plants and animals)

Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Latin names; Binomial nomenclature)

Pastinaca sativa L. is the name of a plant defined in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in modern medicine, Ayurveda, and other local traditions or folk medicine. It has the following synonyms: Anethum pastinaca Wibel, Anethum pastinaca (L.) Wibel, Elaphoboscum sativum (L.) Rupr., Pastinaca sativa Thomas ex DC., Pastinaca sativa L. var. pratensis Pers., Peucedanum pastinaca (Wibel) Baill., Peucedanum pastinaca (L.) Benth. & Hook. f., Peucedanum sativum (L.) Benth. & Hook. f., Selinum pastinaca (L.) Crantz) (from the Greek elaphos ‘a stag, deer’.

References regarding Pastinaca sativa L. for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity:

· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Primitiae Florae Werthemensis (1799)
· Prodr. (DC.) (1830)
· Genera Plantarum (1862)
· Histoire des Plantes (1879)
· Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series (1962)
· Taxon (1980)
· Science (1981)
· Fragmenta Floristica et Geobotanica (1981)
· Acta Biologica Cracoviensia, Series Botanica (1982)
· Le Naturaliste Canadien (1984)
· Watsonia (1991)
· Regnum Vegetabile, or ‘a Series of Handbooks for the Use of Plant Taxonomists and Plant Geographers’ (1993)
· International Organization of Plant Biosystematists Newsletter (1995)
· Opera Botanica (1999)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

See also (Relevant definitions)

Full-text: Madnip, Parsnip, Hart's-eye, Ou fang feng, Bird's-nest, Wild parsnip.

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