Alhagi
See also: alhagi
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
Introduced as a genus name by Abraham Gagnebin in 1755, rarely circulating before as a transcription of the Arabic حَاج (ḥāj) or more specifically vulgar pronunciation of its singulative, with prepended article, الْحَاجَة (al-ḥāja), this plant name deriving from Aramaic חָגָּה / ܚ̈ܵܓܸܐ (ḥāggā, “Alhagi”), from Akkadian 𒂊𒄖𒌋 (egû, a thorny plant, possibly Alhagi).
Proper noun edit
Alhagi f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – camelthorns, manna trees.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family; Faboideae - subfamily; Hedysareae - tribe
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Alhagi maurorum - type species; Alhagi graecorum, Alhagi sparsifolia - selected species
References edit
Alhagi on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Alhagi on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Alhagi on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Alhagi at USDA Plants database
- Alhagi at Tropicos
- Alhagi at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Alhagi at Encyclopedia of Life
- Alhagi at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Alhagi at Germplasm Resources Information Network
- Alhagi at The Plant List
- Gagnebin, Abraham (1755) Acta helvetica physico-mathematico-anatomico-botanico-medica, volume II, Basel: Johann Rudolf Im-Hof, page 59
