flavum
Flavum is a Latin word meaning yellow or blond. The word is rarely and somewhat improperly used as an unqualified noun,[1] but generally occurs as an adjective in Latin names. Thus the ligamentum flavum of the spinal column (plural ligamenta flava) is a yellow elastic ligament. The term also occurs widely in binomial names for yellow organisms.
Thus the saffron darter, Etheostoma flavum, the spider Synema flavum (Thomisidae), the bacterium, Mycobacterium flavum, and plants Arisaema flavum, Bulbophyllum flavum, Cymbidium flavum, Cypripedium flavum, Echium flavum, Eriogonum flavum (yellow wild buckwheat), Glaucium flavum (yellow horned poppy), Hymenosporum flavum, Linum flavum (yellow flax), Lepidium flavum, Phragmipedium flavum, Prasophyllum flavum, Thalictrum flavum, and Zanthoxylum flavum (West Indian Satinwood).
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