Andromeda polifolia

Translingual
The species Andromeda polifolia L.

Etymology

The epithet Polifolia was used as a noun (and hence was capitalized) by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, inherited from Poliifolia used by Johann Christian Buxbaum in 1727, originally coined in Jean Bauhin's posthumously issued Historia Plantarum which was published in 1650, from Poli(um) + -i- + folia (“leaves”). Bauhin was describing and naming a plant which had foliage similar to that of a plant that he knew as Polium (likely Teucrium montanum L., commonly known as mountain germander).[1]

Proper noun

Andromeda polifolia f

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Ericaceae – the bog rosemary.

Hypernyms

References
  1. E. Charles Nelson; P. H. Oswald (2005), “Polifolia revisited and explained”, in Huntia: A Journal of Botanical History‎ (PDF, in English), volume 12, issue 1, Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, ISSN 0073-4071, pages 5–11, citing Historia Plantarum, tomus 1, liber 5, caput X, page 525.

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