what I did for all of these words is that I found the neo-latin word for it and added a suffix.
I only added -al and -ar because words like lycopersica doesn’t sound good as an adjective, so, no declension stuff is in this.
the reason that I added ‘-al’ and not ‘-alis’ (and ‘-ar’ not ‘-aris’) is because we have words like dual and not dualis.
I did not study Latin, so most of these are wrong
Pineapple becomes ananasal
A guess at the pronounciation (in IPA) is: /ˌæ.nǝˈnej.zɫ̩/
example:
5 year old Bob was growing fond of pineapples, but we new his ananasal love wouldn’t last.
Tomato becomes lycopersical
A guess at the pronounciation (haha tomaytos tomahtos) is: /ˌlaj.kowˈpɚ.sɪˌkɫ̩/
Heinz ketchup is a great business, and their lycopersical success is a whole other thing entirely.
Potato becomes solanal-tuberosal
A guess at the pronounciation is: /sowˈlejˌnɫ̩ ˌtub.ɚˈ(ɹ̠)o.sɫ̩/
Lays potato chips makes some great fries, I hope they make another one of those solanal-tuberosal new types soon!
Venus flytrap becomes dionaeal-munscipulal
A guess at the pronounciation is: /ˌdaj.əˈnej.əɫ̩ mənˈskip.jɫ̩.ɫ̩/
Today in antland, we mourn the dionaeal-munscipal death of our close freind, Flyfy McFly.
Morning glory is convolvulacal
A guess at the pronounciation is: /canˈvɫ̩.vɫ̩.əˌkɫ̩/
We woke up in the morning, looked out at the field, and were amazed by the convolvulaceal glory.
Tulip is, simply, tulipal
A guess at the pronounciation is: /ˈtu.lɪp.ɫ̩/
The local florist surprised us with his tulipal knowledge.
California poppy is eschscholzial-californal
A guess at the pronounciation is: /ɛˈʃɒlt.siˌɫ̩ kæ.lɪˈfowɹˌnɫ̩/
A new criminal came to the Californian jail for a escholzial-californal violation.
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