Straussia
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Translingual[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Learned borrowing from New Latin, from Lorenz Strauss, faculty advisor to Franz Peters whose 1666 university dissertation De Potu Coffi included the first European illustrations of the coffee plant, + -ia.
Proper noun[edit]
Straussia f
Usage notes[edit]
Originally used by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1830). Applied by Asa Gray (1860) to Hawaiian relatives of the coffee plant. Sometimes confused with North American Strauzia.
Hypernyms[edit]
References[edit]
- Straussia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Straussia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Psychotria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons