See also: Rhexia

English edit

 
Maryland meadowbeauty (Rhexia mariana), a rhexia

Etymology edit

From the genus name.

Noun edit

rhexia (plural rhexias)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Rhexia of plants in the family Melastomataceae.

References edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

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Noun edit

rhexia f (genitive rhexiae); first declension

  1. a kind of bugloss
    Synonym: onochilis

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rhexia rhexiae
Genitive rhexiae rhexiārum
Dative rhexiae rhexiīs
Accusative rhexiam rhexiās
Ablative rhexiā rhexiīs
Vocative rhexia rhexiae

References edit

  • rhexia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rhexia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.