Dahlia
See also: dahlia
Translingual
Etymology
The plant genus was named by botanist Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804) after Swedish botanist Andreas Dahl (1751-1789).[1][2]
Proper noun
Dahlia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the dahlias, dahlia flowers.
- A taxonomic genus within the family Noctuidae – various moths.
Hypernyms
- (Asteracea (plants)): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family
- (Noctuidae (moths)): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Ditrysia – division; Cossina – section; Bombycina – subsection; Noctuoidea – superfamily; Noctuidae – family
References
- ^ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
- ^ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
English
Etymology
From the flower dahlia in the 19th century.
Proper noun
Dahlia
- A female given name from English.
- 2006 Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 175:
- The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.
- 2006 Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 175: