BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL. 35(4)


 All
 Management Type Words* Literal Metaphorical

 Non-domesticates 323 137 (42.4%) 186 (57.6%)
 Semi-domesticates 175 128 (73.1%) 47 (26.9%)
 Domesticates 113 110 (97.3%) 3 (02.7%)

 The 14 indeterminate words, indicated with ? (Tables 1, 2, and 3), are excluded.

 The differences between the proportions of metaphorical words in the three
 categories of plants (57.6%, 26.9%, and 2.7%) are very significant and show
 that these words were taken from fundamentally different populations (G
 heterogeneity = 143.482, p < .0001). In other words, the proportion of
 metaphorical words declines considerably as a function of increasing plant
 management (see Fig. 2).
 Another finding is that the literal plant terms are much more similar from
language to language than are metaphorical terms. Overall, the similarity of
pairs of literal words compared to metaphorical words is:




 Total Similar Dissimilar

Literal Word Pairs 511 393 (77%) 118 (23%)
Metaphorical Word Pairs 211 49 (23.2%) 162 (76.8%)



It is important to note that the overall proportions of similarity of literal plant
name pairs for each of the three management types are not significantly
different (68% for non-domesticates, 78.6% for semi-domesticates, and 80.8%
for domesticates).
 The ratio of literal to metaphorical plant words, combining words from all
management types, is not significantly different between the five languages (X2
= 1.7, df=4,p > .05).