Gardenia

See also: gardenia, gardénia, and gardênia

Translingual

Gardenia flower

Etymology

New Latin, named by botanist Job Bicknell Ellis (1829-1905) after Scottish physician and botanist, living in South Carolina, Alexander Garden (1730-1791).[1][2] +‎ -ia

Proper noun

Gardenia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – the gardenias.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Gentianales - order; Rubiaceae - family; Ixoroideae - subfamily; Gardenieae - tribe

Hyponyms

See Gardenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

Gardenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Gardenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Gardenia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Gardenia on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Gardenia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Gardenia at Encyclopedia of Life
Gardenia at USDA Plants database
Gardenia at The Plant List

Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.

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