Club Names Referring To Plants
| Topic | Meaning | Country | Clubs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arecaceae | Palmeiras: Portuguese for palm trees. | Brazil | Palmeiras |
| Bluebell | Scotland | Dundonald Bluebell F.C. | |
| Cherry tree | Japan | Cerezo Osaka | |
| Hawthorn | Scotland | Hill of Beath Hawthorn F.C. | |
| Ficus | Figueira: Portuguese for fig tree. | Brazil | Figueirense |
| Hollyhock | Japan | Mito HollyHock | |
| Laburnum | England | Atherton Laburnum Rovers | |
| Lily | Scotland | Easthouses Lily | |
| Maple | Javor: Serbian for maple. | Serbia | FK Javor |
| Oak | Ghana | Hearts of Oak | |
| Pepper | Bermuda | Hamilton Parish Hot Peppers | |
| Pine | Australia | Frankston Pines | |
| Finland | FC Honka | ||
| Rose | Australia | Adamstown Rosebuds | |
| Scotland | Linlithgow Rose F.C., Montrose Roselea F.C. | ||
| Shamrock | Symbol of Ireland. | Ireland | Shamrock Rovers |
| Thistle | National symbol of Scotland | Scotland | Ardeer Thistle, Buckie Thistle, Dalry Thistle, East Kilbride Thistle, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Lothian Thistle, Lugar Boswell Thistle, Partick Thistle |
| Timber | Generic term for wood | United States | Portland Timbers (as well as past teams of the same name) |
| Violet | Jamaica | Violet Kickers F.C. | |
| Scotland | Stonehouse Violet F.C. |
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Famous quotes containing the words club, names, referring and/or plants:
“Mi advise tu them who are about tu begin, in arnest, the jurney ov life, is tu take their harte in one hand and a club in the other.”
—Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818–1885)
“A knowledge that people live close by is,
I think, enough. And even if only first names are ever exchanged
The people who own them seem rock-true and marvelously self-sufficient.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you.”
—Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 6:15.
The words are also found in Exodus 20:5, referring to the second commandment: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ... for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”
“From the time the Englishman’s bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)