Translingual

Genista tinctoria

Proper noun

Genista f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – broom.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family; Faboideae - subfamily; Genisteae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Genista tinctoria (dyer's greenweed, woadwaxen, dyer's broom) - type species; Genista aetnensis (Mount Etna broom); Genista canariensis (Canary broom), Genista linifolia (Mediterranean broom), Genista maderensis (Madeira dyer's greenweed), Genista monspessulana (French broom, Cape broom, Montpellier broom), Genista stenopetala (leafy broom), Genista tridentata - selected other species; for others see Genista at The Plant List.

English

Noun

genista ‎(plural genistas)

1. (botany) Any member of the flowering plant genus Genista.

Latin

Noun

genista f ‎(genitive genistae); first declension

1. Alternative form of genesta

Inflection

First declension.

References

• genista in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• genista in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “genista”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.