Straussia
Translingual
editEtymology
editLearned 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
editStraussia f
Usage notes
editOriginally 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
editReferences
edit- Straussia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Straussia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Psychotria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons