Carthamus
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin carthamus, from Arabic قُرْطُم (qurṭum) for the genus, from Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܪܛܡܳܐ (qūrṭəmā, “safflower”), from ܩܰܪܛܶܡ (qarṭem, “to cut off gently, to trim”) from the plucking off petals which are used for dyeing.
Proper noun edit
Carthamus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the safflowers, the distaff thistles.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): 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; Carduoideae - subfamily; Cardueae - tribe; Centaureinae - subtribe
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Carthamus tinctorius - selected species; for other species see
Carthamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
References edit
Carthamus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Carthamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Carthamus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Carthamus at USDA Plants database
- Carthamus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Carthamus at The Plant List
- Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete[1] (in German), volume 1, pages 111–114