Ocimum
See also: ocimum
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin ōcimum (“basil”), from Ancient Greek ὤκιμον (ṓkimon, “basil”).
Proper noun
Ocimum n
- A taxonomic genus within the family Lamiaceae – aromatic herbs, principally native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World.
Hypernyms
- (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; Lamiaceae - family; Nepetoideae - subfamily; Ocimeae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Ocimum americanum, Ocimum basilicum, Ocimum campechianum, Ocimum citriodorum, Ocimum gratissimum, Ocimum kilimandscharicum, Ocimum minimum, Ocimum neurophyllum, Ocimum selloi, Ocimum tenuiflorum - species
References
Ocimum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Ocimum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Ocimum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Ocimum at USDA Plants database
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
