jargon scout

[Bob Fitzke]

aaaaarrrrrrggghhhh!!! :-)

Joseph McCollum wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 17:43:52 -0700 Bob Fitzke <fitzke at VOYAGER.NET> writes:
> >Peach family or family of peaches. Any difference?
> >
> >Actually saying almonds are in the rose family sounds more unlikely
> >doesn't it?
> >
> Yes -- but the almond and peach are sister species as it were, while
> almond and rose are 1st cousins.
>
> So far as I know, there is no taxonomic difference between "peach family"
> and "family of peaches," but as I have pointed out, there is no taxonomic
> peach family -- it's the rose family.  Hmm... In the dog Latin of
> taxonomy, the group comes first then the name, as "Family Rosaceae," but
> in English, it's the "rose family."