Stevia

See also: stevia and stévia

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin Stevus (“a latinised surname”) +‎ -ia, after 16th century Spanish botanist and physician Petrus Jacobus Stevus (Pedro Jaime Esteve).

Proper noun

Stevia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – certain herbs, called sweetleaf or candyleaf.

Hypernyms

• (tribe): 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

Hyponyms

• (genus): , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , (species)

Translations

genus

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 甜菊 (zh) (tiánjú)

• French: Stévia
• German: Stevia (de)
• Italian: piccolo arbusto con foglio più dolce, Stevia
• Japanese: アマハステビア (Amaha sutebia)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Portuguese: estévia (pt) f, stévia f
• Russian: сте́вия (ru) f (stévija)
• Spanish: caá-ché, hierba dulce, ka´a he´ê, yerba dulce
• Swedish: Stevia
• Thai: หญ้าหวาน (yâa wăan)

Further reading

• Stevia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Stevia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Stevia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Stevia at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Stevia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Stevia at USDA Plants database
• Stevia at The Plant List