#folk botany

• Aron plant — A regional Romanian popular name for the toxic plant Arum maculatum. Written in uppercase (Aron), it denotes the historic proper name variant of the biblical figure Aaron, also borne by historical figures like ruler Aron Vodă.
• Arona plant — A neologistic adaptation or experimental graphic variant for the noun 'aron' (*Arum maculatum*) or a localized misinterpretation of *Aronia* (chokeberry). The linguistic usage belongs to folk botanical registries adapting foreign loanwords.
• Small scorch — A regional popular name given to a small herbaceous plant or a type of drought-resistant vegetation growing in arid, calcareous zones, etymologically linked to the word 'arșiță' (scorching heat) or the root 'a arde' (to burn). In certain local dialects, the term is also used figuratively as a descriptive or affectionate diminutive to indicate a minor skin burn or a passing stinging sensation caused by sun exposure or contact with stinging plants.
• Thicket — A popular or regional name designating a thicket, a dense shrubbery formed by a certain type of shrub vegetation, or, specifically, a young woodland or an area where a plant locally known under a similar root grows abundantly. Linguistically, the term functions as a collective toponymic noun, used in rural microtoponymy in certain regions of Romania to describe the physical and botanical characteristics of a land plot or a mountain slope.
• Ascariță — A rare popular name or regional lexical variant used in certain areas for a small herbaceous plant from the spontaneous flora or a fungus with empirical phytotherapeutic or parasitic properties. In some rural communities, the term may also structurally refer to a traditional niche tool or a plant with anthelmintic effects used in popular veterinary medicine to eliminate intestinal worms.
• Asman — A regional term used in certain popular dialects to name cultivated plant varieties, often associated with specific types of tobacco or large-leaved plants (via contamination or Oriental etymological borrowing); it also represents a lexical archaism denoting a type of fertile land or an intensively cultivated plot found in old agricultural documents from the south of the country.
• Roughish (fem.) — The feminine form of the adjective 'asprișor', meaning quite rough, moderately rugged, or slightly astringent; in folk botany, it is a regional name attributed to certain species of herbaceous plants whose leaves or stems are covered with rigid hairs that leave a rough sensation to the touch.
• Roughish — Somewhat rough, moderately rugged, or slightly astringent; a diminutive adjective used to describe a texture, surface, or taste that exhibits a discrete harshness without becoming entirely hard; in oenology, it denotes a young, fresh wine with a slightly elevated acidity, and in folk botany, it is the name of a plant species in the borage family with leaves covered in rigid hairs.
• Ast — A rare, archaic, and regional term found in certain Transylvanian or Banat popular dialects to denote a rigid branch, a dried vine, or a thin woody stem; it can also be a truncated variant used in rural microtoponyms or old poems. In database contexts, it functions as a unique and fixed lexical entry.
• Astaci — A rare regional term used in Transylvanian or Moldavian dialects to denote a young shoot, a fresh graft, a flexible branch, or a tender vine of a cultivated plant; often associated in traditional agrarian language with grapevines or fruit trees during the budding or tying stage.
• Hollow stalk — A popular term used in some regions to designate a herbaceous plant with a straight, hollow, or knotted stem, such as hemlock or the dry stalk of certain umbellifers; a thistle. In a secondary household sense, the term indicates a small, cramped, dilapidated hut made of branches or reeds, used as a temporary shelter.
• Small round bun — A regional term (found in northern and eastern dialects) utilized with multiple empirical specializations. In traditional gastronomy, it designates a small doughnut, a potato patty, a round dough ball boiled in soup, or a small round bread brushed with garlic. In local folk botany, it can be an archaic name for a bulbous plant or a variety of small onion or spherical mushroom.
• Marsh grass — A regional term with multiple semantic specializations: in popular botany, it can denote a variety of marsh grass or forage reed; in rural technical terminology or craftsmen's slang, it describes a rudimentary clamping device, a wooden lever used to secure logs, or an improvised suspended cradle. Its linguistic structure reflects local adaptations from mountainous or deltaic rural areas.