원예식물 530종류를 과수(36종류), 채소(55종류), 초본화훼(227종류), 목본화훼(98종류), 관엽식물(114종류)로 구분한 후 이름의 유래와 음절수에 대해 조사하였다. 이름의 유래를 어종에 따라 구분한 결과 채소, 초본화훼, 목본화훼는 한국이름에서 유래된 비율이 각각 51.7%, 43.4%, 60.0%로 가장 높았다. 반면에 과수는 중국이름에서 유래된 비율이 46.5%로 가장 높았다. 관엽식물은 한국명의 경우 학명이나 속명에서 유래된 비율이 29.3%, 17.1%로 높았으나 일본어 이름은 일본어에서 유래된 비율이 53.1%로 가장 높았다. 원예식물 이름의 유래를 의미에 따라 구분한 결과 유래원은 과수의 경우 원산지 (43.3%)와 언어명(29.7%)에서 유래된 비율이 높았으며, 채소는 언어명(32.7%)과 형태(16.3%)에서 유래된 비율이 높았다. 초본화훼는 형태(38.3%)와 생육특성(12.3%)에서, 목본화훼는 형태(38.3%)와 색깔(21.1%)에서 유래된 비율이 높았다. 관엽식물은 형태(46.7%)와 언어명(26.7%)에서 유래된 비율이 높았다. 원예식물 이름의 음절수는 과수와 채소는 1-2음절이 각각 71.4%, 68.9%로 비율이 높았다. 반면에 초본화훼와 목본화훼는 3-4음절이 각각 57.5%, 65.7%로 높았으며, 관엽식물은 44.3%가 5음절 이상이었다. 음절수와 어종의 관계를 조사한 결과 한국어, 중국어, 일본어 이름에서 유래된 이름은 음절수가 4개 이내가 90% 이상이었으나 학명에서 유래된 이름은 음절수 5개 이상인 것이 70%이상 되었다.
This study was conducted to clarify the language patterns, origin and number of syllables by meanings in the Korean name of horticultural plants. Horticultural plants were divided into thirty six kinds of fruit trees, fifty five kinds of vegetable crops, two hundred and twenty seven kinds of herbaceous flower and ornamental plants, ninety eight kind of woody flowers and ornamental plants, and hundred and fourteen ornamental foliage plants, etc. As result of division according to languages, horticultural plant's name was originated in vegetables (51.7%), herbaceous flower and ornamental plants (43.4%), and woody flowers and ornamental plants (60.0%), and so on. However, Korean name of fruit trees was mostly originated in Chinese language by 46.5%. Korean name of ornamental foliage plants was mainly originated in scientific name (29.3%) and a generic name (17.1%), however, name of that in Japan was mostly Japanese (53.1%). As a result of division according to means, horticultural plant's name was mainly originated in habitat (43.3%) and language name (29.7%) in case of fruit trees, and language name (32.7%) and morphology (16.3%) in case of vegetables. Korean name was mainly originated in morphology (38.3%), and growth characteristics (12.3%) in herbaceous flower and ornamental plants, and morphology (38.3%), color and gross (21.2%) in woody flowers and ornamental plants, and morphology (46.7%) and language name (26.7%) in ornamental foliage plants. Number of syllables in fruit trees and vegetables by one to two were 71.4% and 68.9%. However, those in herbaceous and woody flower and ornamental plants by three to four were 57.5% and 65.7%, and those in ornamental foliage plants by over five were mostly 44.3%. Number of syllables by less than four in horticultural names originated in Korean, Chinese and Japanese was over 90%, however, those by over five in scientific names were over 70%.