Straussia
Translingual
Etymology
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
- A former genus of Rubiaceae now merged to 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.
Hypernyms
- Rubiaceae
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