Chione

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From Ancient Greek Χιόνη (Khiónē, “nymph in Greek myth”).

Chione f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Veneridae – certain Venus clams.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – trees from the neotropics.

• (genus of clams): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Bivalvia - class; Autobranchia - subclass; Heteroconchia - superorder; Venerida - order; Veneroidea - superfamily; Veneridae - family
• (genus of trees): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Gentianales - order; Rubiaceae - family; Cinchonoideae - subfamily

• (genus of clams): Chione cancellata (cross-barred Venus) - type species
• (genus of trees): Chione venosa (fatpork) - sole accepted species

clams

• Chione (bivalve) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Veneridae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chione on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chione at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Chione at AnimalBase
• Chione at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Chione at World Register of Marine Species

trees

• Chione (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Chione (Rubiaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Chione (Rubiaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Chione at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Chione at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Chione at USDA Plants database
• Chione at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Chione at Tropicos
• Chione at Plants of the World Online
• Cinchonoideae at APWeb

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Chione (Greek myth)

Wikipedia

• Khione (scholarly)

From Ancient Greek Χιόνη (Khiónē), derived from χιών (khiṓn, “snow”).

Chione

1. (Greek mythology) She is the daughter of Boreas (the North Wind), and Oreithyia (an Athenian princess whom he had abducted). Her siblings are Zetes, Calaides and Cleopatra (the wife of Phineus).
2. (Greek mythology) A nymph.

• Chione (daughter of Boreas) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Icheon, echino-

From Ancient Greek Χιόνη (Khiónē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰi.o.neː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈki.o.ne/,

Chionē f sg (genitive Chionēs); first declension

1. Chione (daughter of Daedation, mother to Autolycus and Philammon)
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.301–302:

     Nata erat huic Chione. Quae dotatissima forma / mille procos habuit, bis septem nubilis annis.

     Chione, whose most endowed form captivated a thousand suitors, had been the marriageable age of twice-seven.

First-declension noun (Greek-type), singular only.

• “Chione”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press