Tabebuia
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See also: tabebuia
Translingual[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From a Tupian word tacyba (“ant”) + bebuya (“wood”), because hollowed-out tabebuias are often inhabited by ants; the contracted form may have existed in Tupi[1] or been introduced by Gomes.[2]
Proper noun[edit]
Tabebuia f
- (sensu lato) A taxonomic genus within the family Bignoniaceae – trees including certain trumpet trees, ipe, pau d’arco, and lapacho.
- (sensu stricto) A taxonomic genus within the family Bignoniaceae – excluding species now in Handroanthus and Roseodendron.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Bignoniaceae - family; Tecomeae - tribe
Hyponyms[edit]
- (genus): Tabebuia cassinoides; - type species; for other species see
Tabebuia on WikispeciesWikispecies and 
Tabebuia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References[edit]
- Tabebuia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tabebuia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Tabebuia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Tabebuia at USDA Plants database
- Tabebuia at The Plant List
- ^ “Tabebuia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Alwyn H. Gentry, Tabebuia (Bignoniaceae) in Central America (1969), page 30: "Nevertheless, Gomes did introduce the word "tabebuia" a contraction of "tacyba bebuya" meaning "ant wood" in the Tupi Indian dialect ..."