rhexia

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See also: Rhexia

English

Maryland meadowbeauty (Rhexia mariana), a rhexia

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

rhexia (plural rhexias)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Rhexia of plants in the family Melastomataceae.

References

Latin

Etymology

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Noun

rhexia f (genitive rhexiae); first declension

  1. a kind of bugloss
    Synonym: onochilis

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative rhexia rhexiae
genitive rhexiae rhexiārum
dative rhexiae rhexiīs
accusative rhexiam rhexiās
ablative rhexiā rhexiīs
vocative rhexia rhexiae

References

  • “rhexia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • rhexia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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