Lycium

Translingual

Lycium fremontii

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύκιον (lúkion, “dyer's buckthorn”).

Proper noun

Lycium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae – boxthorns, wolfberries, and goji berry.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Solanales – order; Solanaceae – family; Solanoideae - subfamily; Lycieae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Lycium afrum - type species; Lycium barbarum, Lycium chinense - selected species; for other species see Lycium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Lycium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lycium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Lycium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lycēum

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion).

Proper noun

Lycīum n sg (genitive Lycīī); second declension

1. The Lyceum, near Athens.

References

• “Lycium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Lycīum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “Ly̆cīum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.