Lycium

Translingual

Lycium fremontii

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λύκιον (lúkion, “dyer's buckthorn”).

Proper noun

Lycium n

A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae – boxthorns, wolfberries, and goji berry.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Solanales - order; Solanaceae - family; Solanoideae - subfamily; Lycieae - tribe

Hyponyms

(genus): Lycium afrum - type species; Lycium barbarum, Lycium chinense - selected species; for other species see Lycium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Lycium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lycium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Lycium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Latin

Alternative forms

Lycēum

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Λύκειον (Lúkeion).

Proper noun

Lycīum n sg (genitive Lycīī); second declension

The Lyceum, near Athens.

References

“Lycium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“Lycīum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
Ly̆cīum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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