Talk:var.

The botanical sense is Latin varietas, not English variety, right? Webster 1913 agrees. Equinox ◑ 23:24, 11 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Not according to The New Penguin Dictionary of Abbreviations (2000), the source I cited. Interpreting it as an abbreviation of the English undefined: rather than of the Latin undefined: would explain why undefined: remains unitalicised in the middle of an otherwise italicised, Latin name (as exemplified in the 1991 supporting quotation for that sense included in the entry). — Raifʻhār Doremítzwr ~ (U · T · C) ~ 12:04, 12 November 2011 (UTC)