Vidrio

English translation: Sesuvium portulacastrum (shoreline / sea purslane) OR Salicornia fruticosa (glasswort)

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Spanish term or phrase:Vidrio
English translation:Sesuvium portulacastrum (shoreline / sea purslane) OR Salicornia fruticosa (glasswort)
Entered by: Charles Davis

00:13 Nov 26, 2014
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Botany
Spanish term or phrase: Vidrio
Tengo una tabla con especies de plantas del Ecuador, y solo aparece en la columna de nombre común: Vidrio. Si supiera al menos el nombre científico. Gracias
Vero G. Martinez
Local time: 11:56
Sesuvium_portulacastrum (shoreline/sea purslane) OR Salicornia fruticosa (glasswort)
Explanation:
Not easy to research, largely because you get so many references to glass.

It has to be an Ecuadorian plant, obviously; there may be plants called "vidrio" that grow in other parts of the world, and I think this is the case with Rachel's Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, whose range in America doesn't seem to extend south of northern Mexico.

Unfortunately there seem to be two plants known as "vidrio" in Ecuador and it could be either. One is Salicornia fruticosa (L.) A. J. Scott.

Here it is with a picture (by the way, some place it in the Amaranthaceae family, but its generally regarded as belonging to the Chenopodiaceae):
"Salicornia fruticosa
Amaranthaceae Romero costeño, Vidrio" (p. 2).
Cordillera de El Bálsamo, Bahía de Caráquez-Ecuador
Plantas del Bosque Seco
http://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/rapid...

"Flora
[...]
Familia: Chenopodiaceae
Nombre Científico: Salicornia fruticosa (L)
Nombre Común. Vidrio"
http://repositorio.ucsg.edu.ec/bitstream/123456789/1293/1/T-...

It's found in Venezuela too:
"En los cayos la vegetación es muy escasa: hierba de vidrio (Salicornia fruticosa), campanilla de playa (Sesuvium portulacastrum), saladillo (Batis maritima), uvero de playa (Coccoloba uvifera)."
http://www.monografias.com/trabajos74/trabajo-campo-parque-m...

The other is Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L.:

"Flora
[...]
Familia: Aizoaceae
Nombre Científico: Sesuvium portulacastrum (L) L
Nombre Común. Vidrio"
http://repositorio.ucsg.edu.ec/bitstream/123456789/1293/1/T-...

http://books.google.es/books?id=0ln7wYFR5QUC&pg=PA577&lpg=PA...

"Tabla 5. Especies encontradas e identificadas en los bosques de manglar y salitrales presentes en el sur de la isla Mondragón.
[...]
AIZOACEAE Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. Vidrio" (p. 23)
http://simce.ambiente.gob.ec/sites/default/files/documentos/...

If you Google these scientific names with "vidrio" you'll find more references.

On the plants themselves and their English common names:

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl?Sali...
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33794

http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/17883/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesuvium_portulacastrum
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesuvium_portulacastrum

I don't know which of these is more likely to be the one your list refers to. Maybe you'd better put both and explain in a note.

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Note added at 7 hrs (2014-11-26 07:50:37 GMT)
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By the way, Salicornia fruticosa is also known as Sarcocornia fruticosa; the GRIN database gives priority to the latter:
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?415293

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Note added at 8 hrs (2014-11-26 08:21:23 GMT)
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Ahora bien, cabe la posibilidad de que alguna de estas dos plantas aparezca en otra parte de tu lista bajo otro nombre. En tal caso, podría deducirse que "vidrio" se refiere a la otra.
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 17:56
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1Sesuvium_portulacastrum (shoreline/sea purslane) OR Salicornia fruticosa (glasswort)
Charles Davis
2woad, glastum (Isatis tinctoria)
Muriel Vasconcellos


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vidrio (planta)
woad, glastum (Isatis tinctoria)


Explanation:
I followed the link below at http://etimologias.dechile.net/?vidrio. The site won't let me copy the passage, but it refers to a plant named Isatis tinctoria, which is woad or glastum (also "glasto" in Spanish).

VIDRIO - Diccionario Etimológico
etimologias.dechile.net/?vidrioTranslate this page
**El vidrio se teñía y tenía un color azulado o azul-verdoso. Resulta que vitrum es el nombre de una planta, el glasto, planta pastel o Isatis tinctoria, **

Isatis tinctoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isatis_tinctoria
Isatis tinctoria, with woad or glastum as the common name, is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is commonly called dyer's woad. It is occasionally ...
‎History of woad cultivation - ‎Woad and indigo - ‎Woad and health

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 09:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 79
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Sesuvium_portulacastrum (shoreline/sea purslane) OR Salicornia fruticosa (glasswort)


Explanation:
Not easy to research, largely because you get so many references to glass.

It has to be an Ecuadorian plant, obviously; there may be plants called "vidrio" that grow in other parts of the world, and I think this is the case with Rachel's Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum, whose range in America doesn't seem to extend south of northern Mexico.

Unfortunately there seem to be two plants known as "vidrio" in Ecuador and it could be either. One is Salicornia fruticosa (L.) A. J. Scott.

Here it is with a picture (by the way, some place it in the Amaranthaceae family, but its generally regarded as belonging to the Chenopodiaceae):
"Salicornia fruticosa
Amaranthaceae Romero costeño, Vidrio" (p. 2).
Cordillera de El Bálsamo, Bahía de Caráquez-Ecuador
Plantas del Bosque Seco
http://fieldguides.fieldmuseum.org/sites/default/files/rapid...

"Flora
[...]
Familia: Chenopodiaceae
Nombre Científico: Salicornia fruticosa (L)
Nombre Común. Vidrio"
http://repositorio.ucsg.edu.ec/bitstream/123456789/1293/1/T-...

It's found in Venezuela too:
"En los cayos la vegetación es muy escasa: hierba de vidrio (Salicornia fruticosa), campanilla de playa (Sesuvium portulacastrum), saladillo (Batis maritima), uvero de playa (Coccoloba uvifera)."
http://www.monografias.com/trabajos74/trabajo-campo-parque-m...

The other is Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L.:

"Flora
[...]
Familia: Aizoaceae
Nombre Científico: Sesuvium portulacastrum (L) L
Nombre Común. Vidrio"
http://repositorio.ucsg.edu.ec/bitstream/123456789/1293/1/T-...

http://books.google.es/books?id=0ln7wYFR5QUC&pg=PA577&lpg=PA...

"Tabla 5. Especies encontradas e identificadas en los bosques de manglar y salitrales presentes en el sur de la isla Mondragón.
[...]
AIZOACEAE Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. Vidrio" (p. 23)
http://simce.ambiente.gob.ec/sites/default/files/documentos/...

If you Google these scientific names with "vidrio" you'll find more references.

On the plants themselves and their English common names:

http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl?Sali...
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?33794

http://www.darwinfoundation.org/datazone/checklists/17883/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesuvium_portulacastrum
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesuvium_portulacastrum

I don't know which of these is more likely to be the one your list refers to. Maybe you'd better put both and explain in a note.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 7 hrs (2014-11-26 07:50:37 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

By the way, Salicornia fruticosa is also known as Sarcocornia fruticosa; the GRIN database gives priority to the latter:
http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?415293

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 8 hrs (2014-11-26 08:21:23 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Ahora bien, cabe la posibilidad de que alguna de estas dos plantas aparezca en otra parte de tu lista bajo otro nombre. En tal caso, podría deducirse que "vidrio" se refiere a la otra.

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 17:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 63
Notes to answerer
Asker: Muchas gracias a todos, pero al parecer es tu segunda opción, porque en el documento describen manglares y salitrales como parte del paisaje.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell: yes, I think you're right, I didn't research so much as it was late ;-)
1 day 16 hrs
  -> Thanks very much, Rachel! I must confess this took me a while :)
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