Andromeda polifolia

Translingual

Andromeda polifolia L.

Etymology

The epithet Polifolia (used as a noun and hence being capitalized by early botanists) was used by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, inherited from used by Johann Christian Buxbaum in 1727, originally coined in Jean Bauhin's posthumously issued Historia Plantarum which was published in 1650, from Poli(um) + -i- + folia (“leaves”). Bauhin was describing and naming a plant which had foliage similar to that of a plant that he knew as Polium (likely Teucrium montanum L., commonly known as mountain germander), descended from Latin polium, alt. form of polion, from Greek πόλιον (pólion) ().

Proper noun

Andromeda polifolia f

1. A taxonomic species within the family Ericaceae – the bog rosemary.

Hypernyms

• (species): Ericales - order; Ericaceae - family; Vaccinioideae - subfamily;  - tribe; Andromeda - genus

References

• Andromeda polifolia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Andromeda polifolia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Andromeda polifolia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons