Ajuga

See also: ajuga

Translingual

Etymology

Copyist’s error for Latin abiga, read in Romance identical to aviga, auiga, which without i dot was misread as aiuga.

Proper noun

Ajuga f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lamiaceae – bugleweed.

Synonyms

• Chamaepitys

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Lamiales – order; Lamiaceae – family; Ajugoideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ajuga pyramidalis (pyramidal bugle) - type species; Ajuga chamaepitys (yellow bugle), Ajuga genevensis (blue bugle, erect bugle, upright bugle), Ajuga iva (ground pine, field cypress, gout ivy, herb-ivy), Ajuga nipponensis - selected other species

References

• Ajuga on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ajuga on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Ajuga on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• R[ichard] C[handler] A[lexander] Prior (1863) On the Popular Names of British Plants, […], London, Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, […], →OCLC, page 249
• Nettleship, Henry (1880 March 13) “[Review of] A Latin Dictionary”, in The Academy, volume 17, page 200b