Translingual

Proper noun

Actaea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – baneberry or bugbane, flowering plants native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Ranunculales - order; Ranunculaceae - family; Ranunculoideae - subfamily; Actaeeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Actaea sect. Actaea, Actaea sect. Cimicifuga, Actaea sect. Dichanthera, Actaea sect. Oligocarpae, Actaea sect. Pityrosperma, Actaea sect. Podocarpae, Actaea sect. Souliea - section
  • Actaea spicata - type species; Actaea arizonica (Arizona bugbane), Actaea elata (tall bugbane), Actaea laciniata (Mt. Hood bugbane), Actaea pachypoda (white baneberry), Actaea podocarpa (mountain bugbane), Actaea racemosa (black cohosh), Actaea rubifolia (Appalachian bugbane), Actaea rubra (red baneberry) - selected species; Actaea × ludovici - selected nothospecies

External links

• Actaea (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Actaea (Ranunculaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Actaea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Actaea at USDA Plants database
• Actaea on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Actaea at the Catalogue of Life 
• Actaea at Encyclopedia of Life
• Actaea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Actaea at The Plant List

Etymology 2

Specimen of Actaea semblatae in National Museum of Natural Science in Taiwan

From Ancient Greek ἁκτή ‎(haktḗ, “coast, shore”) +‎ -a

Proper noun

Actaea f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Xanthidae – various mud crabs.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Eucarida - superorder; Decapoda - order; Pleocyemata - suborder; Brachyura - infraorder; Eubrachyura - section; Heterotremata - subsection; Xanthoidea - superfamily; Xanthidae - family; Actaeinae

Hyponyms

• (genus): For species see Actaea (crab) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

External links

• Actaea (crab) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Actaea (Xanthidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Xanthidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Actaea at World Register of Marine Species
• Actaea on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Actaea at the Catalogue of Life 
• Actaea at Encyclopedia of Life
• Actaea at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Actaea at Fossilworks

Latin

Noun

actaea f ‎(genitive actaeae); first declension

1. baneberry

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Portuguese: acteia
• Translingual: Actaea

References

• actaea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “actaea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• actaea in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia
• actaea in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray