Talk:Chenopodium vulvaria

Vulvarius[edit]

I am strongly skeptical towards the source of the supposed word origin of "vulvarius".

comes from the Latin term vulvarius ("having a foul smell"), in reference to the fishy odour of crushed leaves.

I couldn't find the any latin dictionary that gives "foul odor" for vulvarius or the "vulva" word stem, and it seems not exactly far-fetched that this proxies the actual explanation in misguided favor of good taste.

Please excuse the crudeness (and someone should phrase it more palatably or maybe just leave it out of the article), but to me this pretty obviously should read

comes from the Latin term vulva ("female sexual organ"), because of a supposed resemblance between the fishy odour of C.V.'s crushed leaves and the female sexual organ.

-- 88.77.101.223 (talk) 21:17, 9 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with your scepticism. That sounds like a white-wash to me. Vulva is outer female genitals. Linnaeus knew what he was talking about. IdaBokmal (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 09:21, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I would add to that as far as I can tell, the mentioned source ("Botanical Latin" by William T. Stearn) does not mention vulvaria in any way. FlorentinaBizzaria (talk) 13:48, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I have now expanded the etymology section considerably and added verifiable (linked) sources. FlorentinaBizzaria (talk) 14:46, 25 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]