Euonymus
See also: euonymus
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
From Latin euonymos (Pliny), from Ancient Greek εὐώνυμος (euṓnumos, “lucky”), from εὖ (eû, “good”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).
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Proper noun edit
Euonymus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Celastraceae – spindle trees, shrubs often cultivated as ornamental plants.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids - clades; Celastrales - order; Celastraceae - family
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Euonymus subg. Euonymus, Euonymus subg. Kalonymus - subgenera
References edit
Euonymus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Euonymus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Euonymus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Euonymus at USDA Plants database
- ^ 1913 [1897], Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown, An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions: from Newfoundland to the Parallel of the Southern Boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean Westward to the 102d Meridian, Volume 2, 2:490.