Frankenia

Translingual

Etymology

From Frankenius +‎ -ia, coined by Linnaeus to honor Johan Franck (1590–1661), a former Swedish botanist at the University of Uppsala. Sometimes mistakenly further Latinized as Francenia.

Proper noun

Frankenia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Frankeniaceae – sea heaths.
   • 1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 630:

     Francenia, sea-heath, or sea-chickweed, a genus of the hexandria monogynia claſs. The calix is tunnel ſhaped, and divided into five ſegments; the petals are five; the ſtigma has ſix diviſions; and the capſule conſiſts of one cell, with three valves. There are three ſpecies, two of them natives of Britain, viz. the lævis, or ſmooth ſea-heath; and the pulverulenta, or broad leaved ſea-heath.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Caryophyllales - order; Frankeniaceae - family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Frankenia laevis - type species; for others see Frankenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

• Frankenia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Frankenia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Frankenia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons