The spell is Cebola.
But i dont have idea what Cepaea means. I'll look it out.
Wiggers
--- "Harry G. Lee" <[log in to unmask]> escreveu: > Dear Andrew,
>
> I think you win this one. According to Brown, R. W., 1956.
> Composition of
> scientific words. Smithsonian, Washington and London. pp.
> 1-882.), cepaea
> (Latin; from the Greek kepaia) is a succulent salad herb -
> equivalent to a
> stonecrop (houseleek or orpine). I recall the Portuguese word
> for our
> onion is ceboula (spelling may be off); any comments from
> Brasil or Europe?
>
> Your friend may have gotten the "of gardens" notion from the
> species Cepaea
> hortensis (Müller, 1774); the species name "hortensis" means
> of, or living
> in, a garden.
>
> Harry
>
>
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