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Greek adeno, gland, and phyllon, leaf +
Greek adiantos, unwetted, for the glabrous leaves, which shed raindrops +
Greek agave, noble or admirable +
Greek agos, leader, and seris, chicory +
Greek aiglitis, splendor or glitter, perhaps alluding to heads +
Greek akantha, thorn, and Cereus, a genus of cacti +
Greek akron, tip, and ptilon, feather, describing the pappus bristles +
Greek alkea, a kind of mallow +
Greek allo- , different, and genus Wissadula +
Greek amarantos, unfading, nonwith ering +
Greek ambly -, blunt, and pappos, pappus +
Greek ambly, blunt, and lepis, scale +
Greek amblys, blunt, and stege, roof, alluding to obtuse operculum +
Greek amblys, blunt, obtuse, and odon, tooth, alluding to peristome +
Greek ambrosia, “food of the gods,” allusion unclear +
Greek ampelos, grapevine, and -opsis, similarity +
Greek ampelos, vine, alluding to habit, and generic name Aster +
Greek amphi- , doubtful, ambiguous, and Latin scirpus, bulrush +
Greek anagalao, to laugh, alluding to fabled power to alleviate sadness +
Greek and Latin bunias, a kind of common mustard or turnip +
Greek and Latin triadis, a group of three, alluding to 3-merous flowers +
Greek anemone, the windflower, and opsis, appearance +
Greek anisos, unequal, and coma, hair, alluding to pappus +
Greek anthemon, flower +
Greek aphanes, obscure or inconspicuous +
Greek arachnion, spider's web, and -odes, having the form or nature of +
Greek aga-, very or much, and genus Linum, alluding to resemblance of stems and leaves +
Greek agros, field, and stemma, crown or wreath, alluding to the flowers’ use in garlands +
Greek akaina, thorn, alluding to barbed spines arising from wall of hypanthium +
Greek akalephe, stinging nettle, from a-, without, kalos, good, and haphe, touch, alluding to some species resembling Urtica (though not stinging) +
Greek akamptos, stiff or unbending, and pappus, alluding to thick pappus elements +
Greek akron, summit, and kome, hairs of the head, in reference to the high crown of leaves +
Greek akros, top, and poros, pore, possibly alluding to tubulose points of branches +
Greek aktis, ray, and stachys, spike, referring to the rays of the fertile leaves +
Greek aletris, a female slave who ground corn, alluding to the mealy texture of the perianths +
Greek allos, other or different, and tropos, turn or direction, alluding to inflorescence +
Greek amphi -, around, and achyron, chaff or husks, alluding to ring of pappus elements +
Greek amphi- , double or two, and pappos, pappus alluding to dimorphic pappi, ray cypselae and disc cypselae +
Greek ana- , above, and koleos, sheath, alluding to leaf base not sheathing +
Greek ana- , back, kamptos, bent, and odon, tooth, alluding to reflexed exostome teeth +
Greek andros, stamen, and stephanos, crown, alluding to the apical appendages of the united filaments +
Greek aneimon, without clothing, referring to the absence of blade protection for the sporangia +
Greek anisos, unequal or dissimilar, and karpos, fruit, alluding to contrasting ray (fertile) and disc (sterile) ovaries in type species +
Greek ankistron, fish hook, referring to hooked centr al spines, and Cactus, an old genus name +
Greek ankistros, fishhook, and karphos, chaff, alluding to staminate paleae of type species +
Greek anoiktos, opened, and angos, container, alluding to wide-mouthed capsule +
Greek anomos, lawless or different, and bryon, moss, alluding to somewhat hypnaceous distal laminal cells +
Greek anti, like or resembling, and rhinos, nose, alluding to shape of corolla +
Greek anti, opposite, and thrix, hair, alluding to endostome segments opposite exostome teeth +
Greek aphanes, obscure, and stephanos, crown, apparently alluding to low coronal pappus of some species +