Diapensia
See also: diapensia
Translingual
Etymology
Deriving from a misprinting in Leonhart Fuchs New Kreüterbuch (1543) for intended Medieval Latin dispēnsia from Medieval Latin dispēnsāre (“to free of disease”), synonym of sānicula now found in Sanicula.
Proper noun
Diapensia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Diapensiaceae – of alpine and arctic distribution.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Diapensiaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Diapensia lapponica - type species; Diapensia himalaica, Diapensia purpurea, Diapensia wardii - other species
References
Diapensia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Diapensia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Diapensia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Genaust, Helmut (1996), “Diapensia”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 205b–206a
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