Protolog is fine for Zoology, too

[Jeremy Bruhl]

At 19/06/2002 04:05 AMWednesday, you wrote:
>There are lots of possibly superfluous terms for tedious scientific
>concepts. I invented one: mundivagant, meaning that group of plants spread
>worldwide by human activities. Nobody has picked up on it yet, but I use it
>as often as possible, hoping.


In the 1980s Peter Bridgewater used the standard English word
"anthropogenic" to describe such plants; e.g., "the Anthropogenic Flora of
Australia..."

Cheers
Jeremy



Dr Jeremy J. Bruhl
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