<sod>  : Actually it means [[Mugwort]], but they are both ''Artemisia''. Mugworth is ''Artemisia vulgaris L'' and wormwood is ''Artemisia absinthium''. // [[User:Liftarn|Liftarn]]
 
 '', but may very well be a combination of ''cherneej'' (black) and ''beel'' (a species of grass) so Chernoby may mean "black grass", hinting the burning of land before cultivation. ''
Actually, ''byl'' (not beel) Ukrainian &#1080; matches Russian &#1099; sound, hence the transliteration is like in [[Kyiv]]) here is a collective noun for Bylina, which is grass blade or stalk, and the term is literally "black stalk".  This grass is absolutely everywhere in Ukrainian steppes and has certain poetic associations in folklore, and no wonder the city was named so. [[User:Mikkalai|Mikkalai]] 18:20, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 
 This article needs to be organized better, and it requires an NPOV treatment of the strongly varying estimates of deaths that can be attributed to the accident so far:
 <eod> <sod> : Actually it means [[Mugwort]], but they are both ''Artemisia''. Mugworth is ''Artemisia vulgaris L'' and wormwood is ''Artemisia absinthium''. // [[User:Liftarn|Liftarn]]
 
 '', but may very well be a combination of ''cherneej'' (black) and ''beel'' (a species of grass) so Chernoby may mean "black grass", hinting the burning of land before cultivation. ''
Actually, ''byl'' (not beel) Ukrainian &#1080; matches Russian &#1099; sound, hence the transliteration is like in [[Kyiv]]) here is a collective noun for Bylina, which is grass blade or stalk, and the term is literally "black stalk".  This grass is absolutely everywhere in Ukrainian steppes and has certain poetic associations in folklore, and no wonder the city was named so. [[User:Mikkalai|Mikkalai]] 18:21, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
 
 This article needs to be organized better, and it requires an NPOV treatment of the strongly varying estimates of deaths that can be attributed to the accident so far:
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