Aquilegia
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin aquilegia, of unknown origin; it is not known what the Romans called it. Maybe called by the aquila (“eagle”) like in English columbine and Italian colombina it is called by the columba (“pigeon”), and Latin chelīdonia (“celandine”) from χελῑδών (khelīdṓn, “swallow”) has also long been employed to designate this plant, also called in Spanish pajarilla (literally “little bird”). Other suggested resemblences include Latin aculeus (“spike”) and Latin aquilegus, aquilex (“collecting water”) because of the corolla of the plant being shaped like a water-container; however for the time before illustrated herbals have been printed it is not even certain that the term always referred to this plant. On top, the aqui- shape is suspected to be secondarily connected to these words and the Roman city Aquileia, regard also the forms in German Akelei q. v., Middle Low German akeleye, akleye (whence Danish akeleje, Norwegian akeleie, Swedish akleja), Middle Dutch akelei, akolei, Dutch akelei, and French ancolie (the other Romance forms are learned), wherefore Genaust instead connects Ancient Greek ἀγλαΐα (aglaḯa, “splendor, beauty”) or alternatively ἀγκύλος (ankúlos, “hooked, crooked”) or derivatives of it like ἀγκυλοχείλης (ankulokheílēs, “having a hooked beak”).
Proper noun
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- A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – columbines.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Ranunculales - order; Ranunculaceae - family; Isopyroideae - subfamily; Isopyreae - tribe; Isopyrineae - subtribe
Hyponyms
[edit]- (genus): Aquilegia sect. Aquilegia, Aquilegia sect. Darwasianae, Aquilegia sect. Glandulosae, Aquilegia sect. Lactiflorae, Aquilegia sect. Parviflorae, Aquilegia sect. Viridiflorae - sections
- Aquilegia vulgaris (common columbine) - type species; Aquilegia brevistyla (small-flower columbine), Aquilegia canadensis (eastern red columbine), Aquilegia chrysantha (golden columbine), Aquilegia coerulea (Colorado blue columbine, syn. Aquilegia caerulea), Aquilegia eximia (serpentine columbine), Aquilegia flabellata (dwarf columbine), Aquilegia formosa (western columbine), Aquilegia fragrans (sweet-scented columbine), Aquilegia nigricans (Bulgarian columbine), Aquilegia saximontana (Rocky Mountain columbine) - selected other species; for other species see
Aquilegia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Aquilegia vulgaris (common columbine) - type species; Aquilegia brevistyla (small-flower columbine), Aquilegia canadensis (eastern red columbine), Aquilegia chrysantha (golden columbine), Aquilegia coerulea (Colorado blue columbine, syn. Aquilegia caerulea), Aquilegia eximia (serpentine columbine), Aquilegia flabellata (dwarf columbine), Aquilegia formosa (western columbine), Aquilegia fragrans (sweet-scented columbine), Aquilegia nigricans (Bulgarian columbine), Aquilegia saximontana (Rocky Mountain columbine) - selected other species; for other species see
References
[edit]Aquilegia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Aquilegia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Aquilegia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Aquilegia at USDA Plants database
- Aquilegia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Aquilegia”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 71