Glaux
Translingual
Etymology
Latin glaux (“milk-vetch”) per Pliny (a plant also called eugalacton εὐγάλακτον), itself from Greek γλαύξ which per Dioscorides referred to another plant, wart cress.
Proper noun
Glaux f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Primulaceae – milkworts; now a single species of flowering plant, the sea milkwort, now sometimes Lysimachia maritima.
- (archaic) A taxonomic genus within the order Strigiformes – certain owls.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Plantae - kingdom; Viridiplantae - subkingdom; Streptophyta - infrakingdom; Embryophyta - superphylum; Tracheophyta - phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Primulaceae - family; Myrsinoideae - subfamily
Hyponyms
- (genus): Glaux maritima - type species; other species formerly placed here are now usually placed in Nitrophila.
Derived terms
- genera of owls
- Glaucidium
- Gymnoglaux
- Heteroglaux
- Pyrroglaux
- †Sceloglaux
- Smithiglaux
- Uroglaux
- Xenoglaux
References
- plant genus
Glaux on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Glaux on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Glaux on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Glaux at National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Glaux at Encyclopedia of Life
- Glaux at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Glaux at USDA Plants database
- Glaux at Germplasm Resources Information Network
- Glaux at Tropicos
- Glaux at The Plant List
- Glaux in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- Glaux at Index to Organism Names
- “Glaux”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γλαύξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press