Plain English words for hairs??

[Gurcharan Singh]

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From: Curtis Clark <jcclark at CSUPOMONA.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Date: 13 November, 1999 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: Plain English words for hairs??


>At 05:15 PM 11/12/99 -0500, MAGarland at AOL.COM wrote:
>>"bifid trichome" is plain English?



If this is plain English then perhaps are all Latin and Greek technical
terms. I have asked numerous people the meaning of "ortho". Every one says
it means bones. Is that also a plain English?

Gurcharan Singh
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