Scaevola

It is a reference to the story of Gaius Mucius Scaevola (whose name comes from scaevus (“left”)), because the dried flowers recall a withered hand.

Scaevola f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Goodeniaceae – many species of tropical flowering plants found especially in Australia and Polynesia.

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Goodeniaceae - family

• (genus): Scaevola plumieri (gullfeed) - selected species

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• Scaevola at USDA Plants database

From scaevus (“left”).

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskae̯.wo.la/, [ˈskae̯.wɔ.ɫa]

Scaevola m (genitive Scaevolae); first declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Gaius Mucius Scaevola, a Roman hero

First declension.

• Scaevola in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Scaevola in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette