Agujas, alfileres y gladiolos. Metáforas vegetales cosificadoras

Abstract

This study sheds light on the Spanish plant-based metaphors linked to pointed objects, viz. needles, pins and gladioli. Flora iberica database [http://www.floraiberica.es], a project developed in 1980 by the Royal Botanical Garden -the Spanish National Research Council in Madrid known under the denomination of CSIC-, is employed to study «the vascular plants that sporadically grow in the Iberian Peninsula and Balearic Islands»; thus the American flora -even when rich and interesting- is excluded. Particular remarks on how these metaphors are consigned in the academic dictionary are made when incorporated into the «general» name of a plant.