Sanicula
Translingual
Etymology
From Medieval Latin sānicula, first attested in Hildegard of Bingen, probably originally meaning Sanicula europaea, derived from sānāre (“to heal”), also sānāria, however also debauched in use for various unrelated plants and also a synonym of dispēnsāria shed by Linné as Diapensaria.
Proper noun
Sanicula f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Apiaceae – sanicles, black snakeroots, and closely related species.
Hypernyms
- (family): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Apiales - order; Apiaceae - family; Saniculoideae - subfamily
References
- Genaust, Helmut (1996), “Sanicula”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 555b–556a
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