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Translingual
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin, from Lorenz Strauss, faculty advisor to Franz Peters whose 1666 university dissertation De Potu Coffi included the first European illustrations of the coffee plant, + -ia.
Proper noun
Straussia f
- (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – now merged into genus Psychotria.
Usage notes
Originally used by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1830). Applied by Asa Gray (1860) to Hawaiian relatives of the coffee plant. Sometimes confused with North American Strauzia.
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