Chinese-English Glossary of Botanical Terms

Compiled by Susan Marie Rossi-Wilcox, Botanical Museum of Harvard University

• Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• General Tips on Stroke Counting (part 1)
• General Tips on Stroke Counting (part 2)
• Format of Botanical Descriptions
• General Tips for Translating Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae Descriptions
• Illustration of Zingiber officinale Rosc
• Characters Colorcoded to Transliteration
• Comparison of Chinese and English Descriptions of Z. officinale
• Comments

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