Translingual

Wikispecies

Proper noun

Inula f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae.

Hypernyms

• (tribe): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family

English

Wikispecies

Noun

inula ‎(plural inulas)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:

     In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.

2. The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin inula.

Noun

inula f ‎(plural inule)

1. inula

Latin

Noun

inula f ‎(genitive inulae); first declension

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula

Inflection

First declension.

References

• inula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers