PLANT NAMES WHICH CREATED WITH ETHNIC NAMING OR GROWN/BROUGHT GEOGRAPHY NAMING

Mankind preferred naming, using and defining plants because of living together with nature. Plants which were the closest living creature to the human after their species had been renamed in different ways throughout history. While these namings were being done, names of the organs, animal names, character names, numbers, names of various diseases had been used. Benefiting from plants grown/brought geography or ethnic factors is another useful way in naming of plants. The method being followed about consisting terms of plant give information about the place where the plant was grown in and give some hints about language structure of the region. Using grown/brought geography of plants or benefiting of ethnic factors in naming discovered the usage in generation of the terms such as continental names Africa, America, Asia, Europe; country names like Germany, Angola, Arabia, Brazil, Algeria, China, India, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Cyprus, Manchuria, Mexico, Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Yemen, New Zeland; city names like Adana, Ad yaman, Amasya, Ankara, Antep, Azov, Bursa, anakkale, Diyarbak r, Crete, Halep, Isparta, stanbul, zmir, Karaman, Mara , Medine, Mekke, Trabzon, Van, Yalova. Variety of notion clutter in the plant terminology is a continuous process starting from the first Turkish monuments to present. In this process, some of the plant names created with Grown/Brought Geography or ethnic naming draws attention.