oxalis

See also: Oxalis

English

Oxalis

From the genus name Oxalis.

oxalis (plural oxalises)

(horticulture) Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Oxalis
- 2007 April 5, Anne Raver, “Rethinking the Pots on an Old, Cracked Terrace”, in New York Times‎:
  My oxalis and begonias are all in bloom at the windows of my bedroom.

any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Oxalis

Faroese: sýrusmæra f
Finnish: käenkaali (fi)
Greek: οξαλίδα (el) f (oxalída)
Maori: tūtae-kāhu, tūtaekāhu
Norwegian:
Bokmål: gjøkesyre, kløversyre f, siris m, skogsyre f, syreblad n, søtsyre f, vaffelhjerte n (and more)

Nynorsk: gauksyre f, gaukesyre f, gaukegras n, gaukvaffel m, syreblom m (and more)

From Ancient Greek ὀξαλίς (oxalís).

oxalis f (genitive oxalidis); third declension

Third-declension noun.

oxalis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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