Acanthus
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Acanthus mollis 'Oak Leaf' - Missouri Botanical Garden
Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos), from ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”),[1] from ἀκή (akḗ, “point”).[2]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Acanthus m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Acanthaceae – prickly herbs that grow in the Mediterranean; the acanthuses.
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; Acanthaceae - family; Acanthoideae - subfamily; Acantheae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Acanthus mollis (bear's breeches) - type species; Acanthus balcanicus, Acanthus dioscoridis, Acanthus ebracteatus, Acanthus eminens, Acanthus hirsutus, Acanthus ilicifolius, Acanthus montanus, Acanthus polystachyus, Acanthus spinosus, Acanthus syriacus - selected other species
Derived terms
References
Acanthus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Acanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Acanthus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Acanthus at USDA Plants database
- Acanthus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Acanthus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Acantheae at APWeb
- Acanthus at Plants of the World Online
- Acanthus at Tropicos
- ^ Philip Babcock Gove (editor), Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (G. & C. Merriam Co., 1976 , →ISBN)
- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “Acanthus”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.