tagete

tagete

English

Etymology

Apparently back-formed from Tagetes, taking it to be plural.

Noun

tagete (plural tagetes)

1. Synonym of tagetes (“individual plant of the genus Tagetes”).
   • 1979, Ellen Kettle, That they might live, page 3:

     The wound was washed with the juice of a young green coconut, sutured with a fine coconut fibre using the sharpened wing bone of a flying fox and then dressed with a "tagete" leaf over which was laid the outer layer of a banana flower. The whole was then sealed from the air with a mixture of pepper, lime and young betel nut chewed together. Mrs. Parkinson said she knew a man who had lived for thirty years after this operation, but she thought this was exceptional.

   • 2008, Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo: "I Paint My Reality", page 62:

     […] The little girl wears a white death mask and holds a tagete (sunflower):

   • 2013, Sandra Orchard, Deadly Devotion (Port Aster Secrets Book #1): A Novel (Baker Books, →ISBN):

     "She would no more confuse a calendula with a tagete than you'd mistake a water gun for a pistol."