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nootkatensis m or f (neuter nootkatense)

  1. (taxonomy) of or from Nootka
    • B. Maund [Benjamin Maund], The botanic garden; consisting of highly finished representations of hardy ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain; with their names, classes, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations, vol. VII, section Lupi'nus versi'color. Party-coloured Lupine. No. 615. (vol. I from 1825–26, vol. VI from 1835–36)
      This, as Dr. Lindley says, is "[...] It has been called in the society's garden a dwarf Lupinus rivularis; nevertheless the affinity of the species seems to be less with rivularis than with Nootkatensis, for it has nothing of an arborescent habit. [...]"
    • 1855, Agnes Catlow, Popular Garden Botany: Containing a familiar and scientific Description of most of the hardy and half-hardy Plants introduced into the Flower Garden, p. 161 (numbered 116):
      [...]; the North American species are L. perennis and Nootkatensis, blue, and villosus, purple-flowered.

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nootkatēnsis (neuter nootkatēnse); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. (New Latin, taxonomy) of or from Nootka
    • 1832, Aylmer Bourke Lambert, A Description of the Genus Pinus, with Directions relative to the Cultivation, and Remarks on the Uses of the several Species: Also Descriptions of many other new Species of the Family of Conferae (books.google.com):
      60. CUPRESSUS NOOTKATENSIS.
      NOOTKA CYPRESS.
      C. Nootkatensis, ramulis tetragonis foliis latè ovatis acutis dorso convexis quadrifariam imbricatis appressis, galbulis globosis subsessilibus: squamis umbonatis laevibus.
      Habitat ad Sinum Nootka dictum, in Plagâ occidentali Americae borealis.   Menzies.
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    • Supplementum ad indicem undecimum seminum, quae hortus botanicus imperialis petropolitanus pro mutua commutatione offert. Accedunt animadversiones botanicae nonnullae, p. 58 (archive.org):
      [...]; semina in nostra planta illis L. nootkatensis omnino similia sunt. [...] Racemus in apice caulis, illo L. nootkatensis subsimilis, densus. Flores magnitudine inter L. perennem et L. nootkatensem medii.

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Third-declension two-termination adjective.