Crescentia

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Crescentia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Bignoniaceae – certain fruit trees.

• (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; Bignoniaceae – family; Crescentieae - tribe

• (genus): Crescentia cujete (calabash tree) - type species

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From Latin Crēscentia, from crēscēns (“growing, increasing, rising, thriving”), from crēscō (“I grow, increase, rise, thrive”).

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Crescentia f (proper noun, genitive Crescentia)

1. a female given name from Latin

From crēscēns (“growing, increasing, rising, thriving”), from crēscō (“I grow, increase, rise, thrive”). Feminine form of the name Crescentius.

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kresˈken.ti.a/,

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kreʃˈʃen.t͡si.a/,

Crescentia f (genitive Crescentiae, masculine Crescentius); first declension

1. A feminine praenomen.

First-declension noun.

• Crēscentina