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Old 26-04-2003, 01:31 PM
Beverly Erlebacher
 
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Default Constructing epithets (was Use of the word

In article ,
wrote:
OK Behen is an arabic word but I would like to know it's english
meaning.


IIRC at the beginning of the thread, someone listed a number of scientific
names of plants that are called 'behen' in various areas, so likely it's
an Arabic (or Farsi, or both) common name for a plant, applied to different
plants in different areas. Asking what it means may be like asking what
English words like "ironwood" or "lily" mean. These common names are
applied to many different, often unrelated, species of plant.