Carthamus

Translingual

Etymology

From Medieval Latin carthamus, from Arabic قُرْطُم (qurṭum) for the genus, from Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܪܛܡܳܐ (qūrṭəmā, “safflower”), from ܩܰܪܛܶܡ (qarṭem, “to cut off gently, to trim”) from the plucking off petals which are used for dyeing.

Proper noun

Carthamus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the safflowers, the distaff thistles.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae – family; Carduoideae - subfamily; Cardueae - tribe; Centaureinae - subtribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Carthamus tinctorius - selected species; for other species see Carthamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

• Carthamus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Carthamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Carthamus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Carthamus at USDA Plants database
• Carthamus at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Carthamus at The Plant List

• Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, pages 111–114