Acrotriche
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Acrotriche aggregata
See also: acrotriche
Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin acrotrichus (“hairy-tipped”) but with -e modeled after the Ancient Greek feminine adjective suffix -η (-ē).
Proper noun
Acrotriche f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – ground berries of Australia.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids – clades; Ericales – order; Ericaceae – family; Epacridoideae - subfamily; Styphelieae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Acrotriche affinis (ridged ground-berry), Acrotriche aggregata (red cluster heath, tall groundberry, tall acrotriche), Acrotriche baileyana, Acrotriche cordata (coast ground-berry), Acrotriche depressa (wiry ground-berry), Acrotriche divaricata, Acrotriche leucocarpa (tall acrotriche), Acrotriche prostrata (trailing groundberry), Acrotriche rigida, Acrotriche serrulata - selected species
References
Acrotriche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Acrotriche on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Acrotriche on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
