Ocimum

See also: ocimum

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin ōcĭmum (“basil”), from Ancient Greek ὤκιμον (ṓkimon, “basil”), probably loaned from a Pre-Greek substrate language.

Proper noun

Ocimum n

A taxonomic genus within the family Lamiaceae – aromatic herbs, principally native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Lamiales - order; Lamiaceae - family; Nepetoideae - subfamily; Ocimeae - tribe

Hyponyms

(genus): Ocimum americanum, Ocimum basilicum, Ocimum campechianum, Ocimum citriodorum, Ocimum gratissimum, Ocimum kilimandscharicum, Ocimum minimum, Ocimum neurophyllum, Ocimum selloi, Ocimum tenuiflorum - species

References

Ocimum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ocimum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ocimum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Ocimum at USDA Plants database
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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