Monday, October 5, 2009

Flowers, whose name means sword

A Roman scientist of the first century AD named these stately flowers. Struck by the resemblance between the sheath of the flower and the weapon that was carried by Roman soldiers, he called the flower "gladiolus" from the Latin word "gladius" which means sword.

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