Aquilaria
Translingual
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Etymology
editUltimately from Dravidian,[1] probably Tamil அகில் (akil).[2] Related to English eaglewood, Sanskrit अगुरु (aguru).
Proper noun
editAquilaria f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Thymelaeaceae – the source of agarwood.
Hypernyms
edit- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, malvids - clades; Malvales - order; Thymelaeaceae - family
Hyponyms
edit- (genus): Aquilaria malaccensis - type species; for others see references.
References
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Aquilaria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Aquilaria on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Aquilaria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Aquilaria at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Aquilaria at the Catalogue of Life
- Aquilaria at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Aquilaria at The Plant List
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “agaru”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
- ^ Shulman, David (2016) Tamil: A biography, Harvard University Press, pages 19-20:
- We have ahalim [in Hebrew], probably derived directly from Tamil akil rather than from Sanskrit aguru, itself a loan from the Tamil (Numbers 24.8; Proverbs 7.17; Song of Songs 4.14; Psalms 45.9--the latter two instances with the feminine plural form ahalot. Akil is, we think, native to South India, and it is thus not surprising that the word was borrowed by cultures that imported this plant.