Why is it called Lloyd's? Why the Green Man? Leopold Wagner traced the origins of everything the Victorians had a name for — countries, tavern signs, flowers, wines, London streets, nicknames and battles — and found a story behind nearly all of them.

Flowers

2 pages in this part of Names and Their Meaning.

Flowers

HE Wall-flower is always to be met with in old walls and ruined buildings. The Scarlet-runner is a creeping plant with a scarlet…

Flowers: Latin

Mignonette, the diminutive of Mignon, the French for "darling," is so called on account of its delicate fragrance. The Carnation owes its…

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