Dahlia
See also: dahlia
Translingual
Dahlia flowers
Wikispecies
Etymology
The plant genus was named by botanist Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804) after Swedish botanist Andreas Dahl (1751-1789).[1][2]
Proper noun
Dahlia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the dahlias, dahlia flowers.
- A taxonomic genus within the family Noctuidae – various moths.
Hypernyms
- (Asteracea (plants)): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family
- (Noctuidae (moths)): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Noctuoidea - superfamily; Noctuidae - family
References
- 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.
English
Etymology
From the flower dahlia in the 19th century.
Proper noun
Dahlia
- A female given name.
- 2006 Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 175:
- The girls' names were April, Corinne, Gloria, Susannah, and Dahlia. I thought these names fanciful and lovely and would have liked the daughters' looks to match them, as if they were the beautiful children of an ogre in a fairy tale.
- 2006 Alice Munro, The View from Castle Rock, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 175: