Specific botanical epithets meaning likeness

The topic of the present article is a linguistic analysis of specific botanical epithets meaning likeness, mainly those expressed by adjectives or participles. The types of adjectives and the different word-formation patterns are examined through which is represented similarity of the plant as a whole or its singular parts with the characteristics of another plant species or object.
The article is based on the "Conspectus of the Bulgarian vascular flora", Sofia, 2012. Besides the particular epithet, are considered the binomial names that contain it. Each Latin name is followed by its standard meaning in English or a literal translation of the Latin lexemes when the standard meaning is missing.