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evocaciones

English translation: evocations

15:46 Oct 2, 2008
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Botany / Phyllotaxy
Spanish term or phrase: evocaciones
Philotaxia] Las formas philotaxia nacen como **evocaciones** abstractas de formas vegetales. Desde una perspectiva geométrica, las plantas han venido ensayando desde hace millones de años agrupaciones de moléculas organizadas en diversos conjuntos y formas: pares, tríos, pentámeros...
Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 19:20
English translation:evocations
Explanation:
escogería el término porque según el contexto, es una evocación al pasado, a lo que han venido ensayando las plantas. En inglés también se diría "evocation"
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Lorena_Escudero
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Local time: 19:20
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thanks Lorena!
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3 +3evocations
Lorena_Escudero
3evoke
S Ben Price
3forms
Rachel Fell


  

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evocations


Explanation:
escogería el término porque según el contexto, es una evocación al pasado, a lo que han venido ensayando las plantas. En inglés también se diría "evocation"

Lorena_Escudero
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thanks Lorena!

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evoke


Explanation:
It might sound better if you change it to a verb.
The philotaxia? forms [evoke/conjure/elicit] abstract [images/impressions] of vegatables.
or
The (philotaxia?) evoke/conjure/elicit abstract images of vegatables forms.

S Ben Price
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forms


Explanation:
the patterns begin as abstract forms of plant arrangements


In botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of the leaves on the stem of a plant. The basic patterns are alternate, opposite, whorled or spiral. With an alternate pattern, leaves switch from side to side. An alternate distichous phyllotaxis means that each leaf growing at a single node is disposed in a single rank along the branch (such as in grasses). In an opposite pattern, two leaves grow in opposite directions from the same node. In an opposite pattern, if successive leaf pairs are perpendicular, this is called decussate. A whorled pattern consists of three or more leaves at each node. An opposite leaf pair can be thought of as a whorl of two leaves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllotaxis

Rachel Fell
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