Mikić, Aleksandar,

Lexicon of pulse crops / by Aleksandar Miki?. - First edition. - 1 online resource (377 pages)

chapter 1 World’s Pulses / chapter 2 World’s Languages / chapter 3 Arachis L. / chapter 4 Cajanus Adans. / chapter 5 Cicer L. / chapter 6 Ervum L. / chapter 7 Faba Mill. / chapter 8 Glycine Willd. / chapter 9 Lablab Adans. / chapter 10 Lathyrus L. / chapter 11 Lens Mill. / chapter 12 Lupinus L. / chapter 13 Phaseolus L. / chapter 14 Pisum L. / chapter 15 Vicia L. / chapter 16 Vigna Savi / Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić -- Aleksandar Mikić.

Lexicon of Pulse Crops integrates botanical and linguistic data to analyze and interpret the grain legume significance from the earliest archaeological and written records until the present day. Aimed at both agronomic and linguistic research communities, this book presents a database containing 9,500 common names in more than 900 languages and dialects of all ethnolinguistic families, denoting more than 1,100 botanical taxa of 14 selected pulse crop genera and species.The book begins with overviews of the world’s economically most important grain legume crops and their uncultivated relatives, as well as the world’s language families with their inner structure, including both extinct and living members.? The main section of the text presents 14 specialized book chapters covering Arachis, Cajanus, Cicer, Ervum, Faba, Glycine, Lablab, Lathyrus, Lens, Lupinus, Phaseolus, Pisum, Vicia, and Vigna. They provide the reader with extensive lists of the botanically accepted species and subtaxa and surveys lexicological abundance in all world’s ethnolinguistic families, comprising extinct and living as well as natural and constructed languages, while the vernacular names for the most significant taxa are presented in comprehensive tables.? Each of these chapters also presents the existing etymologies and novel approaches to deciphering the origins of common names, accompanied by one original color plate depicting possible root evolutions in the form of corresponding pulse crop plants.

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Agriculture.
Botany.
Crop Science.
Legumes--Nomenclature.
Literature.
Sociology of Work & Industry.
NATURE / Plants / General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General.
Agriculture And Linguistics, Historical Linguistics.
Archaeobotany, Paleogenetics.
International Year Of Pulses.
Pulses, Pulse Crops, Grain Legumes.
Legumes--Nomenclature.
Legumes.

QK495.L52 / M55 2018

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