Talk:махровый

How do the meanings of "double" (botany) and "inveterate/double-dyed" relate to "terrycloth (attrib.)"? Benwing2 (talk) 19:18, 14 July 2018 (UTC)


 * Well, refers to flore pleno, double-flowering (or just double, plenus). See also Double-flowered. Not sure how this relates to terry cloth.  = doubleness (see doubleness in flowers). —Stephen (Talk) 20:17, 14 July 2018 (UTC)
 * : I am not sure either. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 00:32, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

Double flowers aren’t just double literally. They and terry cloth share a ‘shaggy’ appearance: double flowers with their many petals and terry cloth with all the loops. As for ‘inveterate’, it’s from the botany sense, just a metaphor that happened to gain spread, originally in expressions like ‘цвести махровым цветом’. Guldrelokk (talk) 05:08, 15 July 2018 (UTC)