英语词汇quisqualis的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Quisqualis. Like mahernia, the name of the plant genus Quisqualis is another joke played by the pioneer botanist Lin- naeus. Quisqualis, the genus containing a few woody vines from Malaya and the Philippines, is grown today in southern Florida for its showy pink or red flowers. When Linnaeus ex- amined the plant, he did not know how to classify it or for whom he could name it. He therefore called the genus Quis- qualis, which in Latin means, literally, “who or what for.” Al- though Quisqualis (kwis-kwal-is) is not eponymous, it clearly shows that the naming process is not always so serious a mat- ter; it might even be called an anonymous eponymous word, or a word in want of an eponym. See mho.

词汇	quisqualis
词源	Quisqualis. Like mahernia, the name of the plant genus Quisqualis is another joke played by the pioneer botanist Lin- naeus. Quisqualis, the genus containing a few woody vines from Malaya and the Philippines, is grown today in southern Florida for its showy pink or red flowers. When Linnaeus ex- amined the plant, he did not know how to classify it or for whom he could name it. He therefore called the genus Quis- qualis, which in Latin means, literally, “who or what for.” Al- though Quisqualis (kwis-kwal-is) is not eponymous, it clearly shows that the naming process is not always so serious a mat- ter; it might even be called an anonymous eponymous word, or a word in want of an eponym. See mho.
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