Translingual

Vaccinium oxycoccos

Proper noun

Vaccinium n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – shrubs including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, cowberry or lingonberry, and some huckleberry.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids - clades; Ericales - order; Ericaceae - family; Vaccinioideae - subfamily; Vaccinieae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Vaccinium uliginosum - type species; Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium oxycoccos - selected other species; for subgenera and species, see Vaccinium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies ; for sections see Vaccinium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Noun

vaccinium ‎(plural vacciniums)

1. (botany) Any of the genus Vaccinium of ericaceous shrubs including the various kinds of blueberries and the true cranberries.

Latin

Etymology

From vaccinus or a corruption of Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος ‎(huákinthos, “dark red, purple”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wakˈkiː.ni.um/

Noun

vaccīnium n ‎(genitive vaccīniī); second declension

1. the bilberry, blueberry, whortleberry

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Vaccinium

References

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

1. ↑ Austin, Flroida Ethnobotany