Glaux

Translingual

Etymology

Latin glaux (“milkvetch (Astragalus spp.)”) per Pliny (a plant also called eugalacton εὐγάλακτον), itself from Greek γλαύξ which per Dioscorides referred to another plant, wart cress (Coronopus spp.).

Proper noun

Glaux f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Primulaceae – milkworts; now a single species of flowering plant, sea milkwort, now sometimes Lysimachia maritima.
2. (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the order Strigiformes – certain owls.

Hypernyms

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

Hyponyms

• (genus): Glaux maritima - type species; other species formerly placed here are now usually placed in Nitrophila.

Derived terms

genera of owls

• Glaucidium
• Gymnoglaux
• Heteroglaux
• Pyrroglaux
• †Sceloglaux
• Smithiglaux
• Uroglaux
• Xenoglaux

References

plant genus

• Glaux on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Glaux on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Glaux on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Glaux at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Glaux at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Glaux at USDA Plants database
• Glaux at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Glaux at Tropicos
• Glaux at The Plant List
• “Glaux”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Glaux at Index to Organism Names
• “Glaux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “γλαύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press