Begonia

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See also: begonia, bégonia, begónia, begônia, and begonią

Translingual

Begonia flowers

Etymology

Named after Michel Bégon (1683–1710) by botanist Carl von Linnaeus (1707–1778)^[1]^[2] +‎ -ia

Proper noun

Begonia f

A taxonomic genus within the family Begoniaceae – the begonias.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Cucurbitales – order; Begoniaceae – family

Hypernyms

(genus): Begonia obliqua – type species; Begonia wageneriana – selected other species; for more than 1,200 of the estimated 2,000+ species, organized by section see Begonia on WikispeciesWikispecies ; for nearly three hundred species with images see Begonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

References

Begonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Begonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Begonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

^ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
^ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.

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