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Clivia

Clivia

See also: clivia

Translingual

Clivia miniata

Proper noun

Clivia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Amaryllidaceae – the clivias or kaffir lilies.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Encyrtidae – a monotypic taxon, containing only Clivia antoninae, a parasitoid chalcid wasp of China.

Hypernyms

plant
chalcid wasp

References

  1. Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
  2. Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
  3. Zhang, Y.Z.; Huang, D.W. (2005) A new genus and a new species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) from China., JOURBOOK: Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica VOLUME: 30(1) PAGES: 150-154

clivia

clivia

See also: Clivia

English

Clivia orange

Noun

clivia (plural clivias)

  1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Clivia, native to southern Africa.

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