拉丁文从语言角度来讲,已经成为“死文字”,但是,它在生物科学和医学方面却仍然发挥着重要的作用。就拿植物学来说,每一种植物都有一个正确的拉丁文命名,每一个新分类群(新科、新属、新种等)的有效发表,都必须用拉丁文描述,方可得到世界各国的公认。所以说植物学拉丁文是全世界植物学工作者用来命名和描述植物的一种国际语文。约翰· Latin has become a “dead word” from a linguistic perspective, but it still plays an important role in biological sciences and medicine. To take botany, every plant has a correct Latin name. The effective publication of each new taxon (new families, new genera, new species, etc.) must be described in Latin to obtain the world. National recognition. So botanical Latin is an international language that botany workers around the world use to name and describe plants. John