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Milium confertum L.

Taxonomic history:
    1753: Linnaeus described this species as Milium confertum in Species Plantarum, 1st ed., p. 61.
   today: The current name for this species is Piptatherum miliaceum (L.) Coss.


original Latin diagnosis
Milium floribus confertis.

English translation
Milium with flowers packed closely together.


English translation with commentary
Milium Milium
with flowers floribus - ablative plural of third declension masculine noun flos, floris
packed closely together. confertis - ablative plural masculine of perfect participle of fourth conjugation verb confercio, confercire, confersi, confertum; modifies floribus



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