In country districts flowers are given variously poetic or prosaic names which are derived from some obvious characteristic of the plant itself.

And so the Blue Skies project - or to use its more prosaic name, the Venture Research Unit, got off the ground.

"Not sufficiently flashy, the Cartesian skyscraper was eventually given the lumpy, prosaic English name of tower block."

It now goes by the more prosaic name of High Resolution Microwave Survey.

The prosaic name of this beautiful region is Dunakanyar, meaning Danube Bend.

Her title is not official, and her charge has a more prosaic name: Pothole No.3.

Mrs. Smith (such was the prosaic name of this far from prosaic household) lingered a little, talking slightly and pleasantly.

Thus the Horsehair, whose real and prosaic name had long since been discarded.

The waiter pointed us toward eel in brown sauce, a dish more delicious than its prosaic name.

The simultaneously prosaic and cryptic name they gave it alludes to nothing, connotes nothing.