alfilaria

English

Erodium cicutarium subsp. cicutarium fruit, Hockenheim, Germany

Alternative forms

• alfileria, alfilerilla, alfilerillo

Etymology

From Spanish alfilerillo, from alfiler (“pin”). The ending was assimilated to the familiar botanical suffix -aria.

Noun

alfilaria (countable and uncountable, plural alfilarias)

1. Common storksbill (Erodium cicutarium), a flowering plant of the family Geraniaceae.

   Synonym: redstem filaree

References

• Erodium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Erodium cicutarium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Erodium cicutarium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons