Acrotriche

See also: acrotriche

Translingual

Acrotriche aggregata

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin acrotrichus (“hairy-tipped”) but with -e modeled after the Ancient Greek feminine adjective suffix -η (-ē).

Proper noun

Acrotriche f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – ground berries of Australia.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids – clades; Ericales – order; Ericaceae – family; Epacridoideae - subfamily; Styphelieae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Acrotriche affinis (ridged ground-berry), Acrotriche aggregata (red cluster heath, tall groundberry, tall acrotriche), Acrotriche baileyana, Acrotriche cordata (coast ground-berry), Acrotriche depressa (wiry ground-berry), Acrotriche divaricata, Acrotriche leucocarpa (tall acrotriche), Acrotriche prostrata (trailing groundberry), Acrotriche rigida, Acrotriche serrulata - selected species

References

• Acrotriche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Acrotriche on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Acrotriche on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons