Enquiry into Plants

Hellenic religion

• Coppice appears in Hellenic religion.

  Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants seats woodland cutting and the way trees sprout again from stump and root among Greek botanical speech on managed underwood and poles. A named coppice in that handbook’s cutting-and-regeneration neighborhood, not grove as a sacred stand alone and not woodland as standing timber alone.

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• Herbal text appears in Hellenic religion.

  Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants is the surviving Greek plant-book that orders plants by kind and records names and uses, the handbook form later herbal speech still names. A named herbal-text in that Hellenic botanical learning, not bestiary as the animal-book and not lapidary as the stone-book.

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• Touchwood appears in Hellenic religion.

  Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants seats timber decay and which woods rot or take fire among botanical fuel and wood-quality speech. A named touchwood in that decayed-wood neighborhood under later English tinder naming, not tinder as prepared cloth, not charcoal as prepared fuel, and not firewood as sound hearth wood.

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• Vine Charcoal is historically related to Vine.

  Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants Book 5 seats charcoal made from different woods and ranks which burn and hold fire, including vine and soft-shoot woods in that fuel neighborhood. A named vine-charcoal as charcoal from vine wood continuous with that handbook, not charcoal as the generic fuel seat alone and not vine-black as the pigment char dump refused here.

  from Theophrastus · Enquiry into Plants, c. 300 BCE

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• Cherry Gum is historically related to Cherry.

  Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants seats gums and tree exudates among plant juices, including gum that flows from stone-fruit and related trees in that handbook neighborhood. A named cherry-gum as Prunus exudate continuous with that botanical gum speech, not gum-arabic as the acacia gum already walked and not tragacanth as the astragalus gum already walked.

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• Mastic varnish is historically related to Mastic.

  Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants seats σχῖνος and Chian mastic among resinous shrubs whose gum is gathered and used, the botanical resin path later varnish speech still names. A named mastic-varnish as mastic-resin continuity under later varnish naming, not mastic as the resin plant/product alone already walked and not damar-varnish as a different resin medium.

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• Nettle Fiber is historically related to Nettle.

  Theophrastus’s Enquiry into Plants seats κνίδη among useful plants whose parts are known and used, continuous with later bast-fiber speech that spins nettle stems into cloth. A named nettle-fiber in that useful-plant neighborhood, not nettle as the published plant alone and not ramie as Boehmeria China grass or flax as the linen bast already walked.

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• Wood is historically related to Oak.

  Theophrastus’s plant enquiry treats oak among trees whose timber is ordinary building and fuel wood. A named wood beside oak as a chief timber tree, not wood-element as a classical phase.

  from Theophrastus · Enquiry into Plants, c. 300 BCE

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