Townsendia exscapa
- noun
- Specialized
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Townsendia exscapa
- The rocky slopes were covered with Townsendia exscapa, their white-rayed blossoms bright in the sun.
Examples
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Researchers studied how Townsendia exscapa survives in its dry prairie habitat.
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She found a rare specimen of Townsendia exscapa growing near the creek.
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Look at that Townsendia exscapa!
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What a beautiful Townsendia exscapa!
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The rocky slopes were covered with Townsendia exscapa, their white-rayed blossoms bright in the sun.
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Researchers studied how Townsendia exscapa survives in its dry prairie habitat.
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She found a rare specimen of Townsendia exscapa growing near the creek.
Synonyms
Small low plant with soft hairy leaves and white daisy-like flowers that bloom in early spring
A low plant with soft leaves in a circle and white daisy flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Townsendia + exscapa
This is a Latin binomial (genus + specific epithet). Even if a learner knows 'Townsendia' as a group of low flowering plants, the epithet 'exscapa' is not an English word and does not transparently convey the species-level descriptive meaning (nearly stemless herb with woolly leaves). Species names are proper nouns with language-specific Latin morphology, so the overall meaning cannot be derived by a B1 learner from the parts.
Etymology
Townsendia exscapa is a plant name made of a person’s name and a Latin word. Townsendia is named for the botanist Townsend, and exscapa means 'without a stem', so the name gives the image of a small plant whose flowers sit low on the ground among a circle of leaves.
