TY - BOOK AU - Mikić,Aleksandar ED - Taylor and Francis. TI - Lexicon of pulse crops SN - 9781315109176 AV - QK495.L52 M55 2018 U1 - 583/.63 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Boca Raton, FL PB - CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis KW - Agriculture KW - Botany KW - Crop Science KW - Legumes KW - Nomenclature KW - Literature KW - Sociology of Work & Industry KW - NATURE / Plants / General KW - bisacsh KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General KW - Agriculture And Linguistics, Historical Linguistics KW - Archaeobotany, Paleogenetics KW - International Year Of Pulses KW - Pulses, Pulse Crops, Grain Legumes N1 - chapter 1 World’s Pulses; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 2 World’s Languages; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 3 Arachis L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 4 Cajanus Adans.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 5 Cicer L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 6 Ervum L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 7 Faba Mill.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 8 Glycine Willd.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 9 Lablab Adans.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 10 Lathyrus L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 11 Lens Mill.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 12 Lupinus L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 13 Phaseolus L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 14 Pisum L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 15 Vicia L.; Aleksandar Mikić --; chapter 16 Vigna Savi; Aleksandar Mikić N2 - 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 UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315109176 ER -