Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
trolle
English translation:
globeflower (Trollius laxus)
Added to glossary by
ACOZ (X)
Mar 1, 2013 00:53
11 yrs ago
French term
trolle
French to English
Other
Botany
name of flower/in a tourism doc
Could somebody who lives in or has visited Vendée please tell me what this is? In the text I'm translating, it simply says "amusez-vous à tresser des trolles" and a search on the Internet keeps throwing up info on vertically-challenged creatures with ugly faces!
Proposed translations
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| 3 +3 | globeflower (Trollius laxus) |
DLyons
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Change log
Mar 1, 2013 01:50: writeaway changed "Field (specific)" from "Tourism & Travel" to "Botany" , "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "name of flower/in a tourism doc"
Proposed translations
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globeflower (Trollius laxus)
Google: "She holds a wreath plaited out of yellow globeflowers."
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: http://www.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=e...
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Thanks writeaway.
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Rachel Fell
: maybe T. europaeus, though - http://www.diomedia.com/public/;jsessionid=E0BC9F8BC65B67E3C...
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Thanks Rachel. Yes, could well be.
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philgoddard
: The exact species doesn't matter - the genus is trollius.
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Thanks Phil.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "I'm awarding points because you were the only person who took the time to answer. I've since found out that, in this case, "tresser des trolles' means "to plait straw"."
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