Begonia
Translingual
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Etymology
[edit]Named after Michel Bégon (1683–1710) by botanist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778)[1][2] + -ia
Proper noun
[edit]Begonia f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Begoniaceae – begonias, native to many tropical and subtropical environments and grown as houseplants.
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Cucurbitales – order; Begoniaceae – family
Hypernyms
[edit]- (genus): Begonia obliqua – type species; Begonia wageneriana – selected other species; for more than 1,200 of the estimated 2,000+ species, organized by section see
Begonia on WikispeciesWikispecies ; for nearly three hundred species with images see 
Begonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
References
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Begonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Begonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Begonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- ^ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
- ^ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.