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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2022-02-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Hydrastis canadensis
Latin
OBS

A plant of the family Ranunculaceae.

OBS

yellow root : common name also used to refer to several other species of plants with yellow roots.

Key term(s)
  • golden-seal
  • orange-root
  • yellowroot

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Hydrastis canadensis
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Ranunculaceae.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Hydrastis canadensis
Latin
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Record 2 2016-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

[A] fungal infection that causes the seed or seedling to rot and die.

OBS

It can be characterized by patches in the field that fail to germinate. If the seedlings do manage to germinate, they may not emerge, or they may emerge and then become brown, pinched, and die. Other symptoms include stunted and yellow growth, or reduced root growth with brown spots on the roots and coleoptile.

OBS

damping-off: term used at the Canadian Grain Commission.

OBS

seedling blight: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’agriculture” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Dégât, le plus souvent d'origine cryptogamique, caractérisant le dépérissement et la mort des jeunes plantes d'un semis.

OBS

[La fonte des semis] est due à divers genres de champignon [...]

OBS

fonte des semis : terme en usage à la Commission canadienne des grains.

OBS

fonte des semis : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Key term(s)
  • brûlure de semis

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de las plantas
  • Producción vegetal
DEF

Enfermedad que ataca con preferencia a las plántulas en semillero. Es causada por el hongo ficomicete Pythium debaryanum.

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Record 3 2016-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Pests (Crops)
  • Insects, Centipedes, Spiders, and Scorpions
Universal entry(ies)
Heterodera carotae
Latin
OBS

Heterodera carotae (Jones), described in England for the first time in 1950

OBS

Heteroderidae. Cyst nematodes, highly specific, attacking members of but few genera in a given plant family, partially endoparasitic, quite sedentary, attached to root by neck only. The female is lemon-shaped to globoid, white, yellow, or brown, 0. 5 to 0. 75 mm. Eggs are deposited or retained in body of mother, whose leathery wall forms a true cyst. Eggs remain alive for years in cysts, which are spread by wind or in soil around nonhost plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Animaux nuisibles aux cultures
  • Insectes, mille-pattes, araignées et scorpions
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Heterodera carotae
Latin
CONT

Nématode de la carotte. Heterodera carotae (Jones). Ce nématode produit des kystes en forme de citron. Il provoque le dépérissement des cultures de carottes atteintes: le feuillage est chétif, rougeâtre, les radicelles sont anormalement développées et nombreuses.

OBS

Décrit pour la première fois en Angleterre en 1950.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sugar Industry
DEF

A sweet white(or brownish yellow) crystalline substance, of a sandy or granular consistency, obtained by crystallizing the evaporated juice of certain plants, as the sugar cane, sorghum, beet root, sugar maple, etc. It is used for seasoning and preserving many kinds of food and drink.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sucrerie (Industrie de l'alimentation)
OBS

Sucre qui ne fond pas à la chaleur. Sucre dur.

Spanish

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Record 5 1993-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Perfume and Cosmetics Industry
DEF

Root stock of an umbelliferous plant, indigenous in Syria, now recognized at Balsamodendron Kafal, furnishing a yellow milky sap containing an aromatic resin.(Perfumes and Cosmetics, their Preparation and Manufacture, 1922, p. 41).

CONT

Gum-resin exuded by Commiphora erythroea, ... in the Ogaden country. It is known family Burseraceae and found growing ... in the Ogaden country. It is know also as bissabol, perfumed bdellium, sweet myrrh, and in Somaliland as habbak hadi, the gum of the hadi tree. ... opopanax consists principally of gum, resin, and essential oil ... separated by distillation. (Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps, 1950, p. 309).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parfumerie
DEF

Ombellifère succulente, plante herbacée, vivace à racines épaisses, à tige rude portant des feuilles pennatiséquées, à fleurs jaunes, réunies en ombelles, composées, dont on connaît trois espèces des régions chaudes.

CONT

Le véritable opopanax proviendrait de l'opopanax chicorium de l'Iran septentrional. Beaucoup de données de littérature relative à l'opopanax ont fait en fait à la myrrhe bisabol avec laquelle les parfumeurs la confondent souvent. (Technologie et chimie des parfums naturels, 1974, p. 273).

Spanish

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Record 6 1993-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Perfume and Cosmetics Industry
DEF

Root stock of an umbelliferous plant, indigenous in Syria, now recognized at Balsamodendron Kafal, furnishing a yellow milky sap containing an aromatic resin.(Perfumes and Cosmetics, their Preparation and Manufacture, 1922, p. 41).

CONT

Gum-resin exuded by Commiphora erythroea, ... a plant belonging to the family Burseraceae and found growing ... in the Ogaden country. It is known also as bissabol, perfumed bdellium, sweet myrrh, and in Somaliland as habbak hadi, the gum of the hadi tree. ... opopanax consists principally of gum, resin, and essential oil ... separated by distillation. (Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps, 1950, p. 309).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parfumerie
DEF

Ombellifère succulente, plante herbacée, vivace à racines épaisses, à tige rude portant des feuilles pennatiséquées, à fleurs jaunes, réunies en ombelles, composées, dont on connaît trois espèces des régions chaudes.

CONT

Le véritable opopanax proviendrait de l'opopanax chicorium de l'Iran septentrional. Beaucoup de données de littérature relative à l'opopanax ont trait en fait à la myrrhe bisabol avec laquelle les parfumeurs la confondent souvent. (Technologie et chimie des parfums naturels, 1974, p. 273).

OBS

D'après Paul Fournier, «opoponax» serait une faute orthographique.

Spanish

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