Talk:शिव

RFC discussion: September 2013–August 2017

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शिव

Defined as "Marsilea dentata" or "Marsilia dentata" (original spelling).

species:Marsilea is a real genus, species:Marsilia is not.

Web search shows it to appear almost entirely in South Asian language - English dictionaries. They must have had something in mind. But what? This kind of thing is not uncommon in our Sanskrit entries. DCDuring TALK 01:16, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

Marsilea dentata - marsilea dentata#English - marsilea dentata#Latin - Special:WhatLinksHere/Marsilea dentata - Marsilea dentata@WSp - Marsilea dentata@WP - Google Marsilea dentata (Books • Groups • Scholar) - dentata Marsilea dentata at List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature - Fossilworks.

They seem to all go back to Monier-Williams, who gives the definition as "Marsilia dentata, L.", meaning he's seen it in dictionaries, but not in any text. Marsilia can be seen here and there in the 1800s as an alternate spelling for Marsilea, so Marsilea is likely the correct genus (The spelling "Marsilea dentata" can be found elsewhere in the same dictionary). One or two of the dictionaries equate it with Marsilea quadrifolia, which sounds right, but I've been unable to find "Marsilea dentata" or "Marsilia dentata" in any botanical reference, so far. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:21, 7 September 2013 (UTC)

@Chuck Entz I took a run at this. Please review. DCDuring TALK 19:56, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

• Looks good now --New WT User Girl (talk) 10:40, 27 August 2017 (UTC)