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Cosmos

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Translingual

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Cosmos bipinnatus

Etymology

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From New Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “decoration, ornament”) (referring to its elegant leaves),[1] coined by the Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles (1745–1804).[2][3][4]

Proper noun

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Cosmos m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – several American flowering plants.

Hypernyms

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Hyponyms

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Descendants

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  • → English: cosmos

References

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  1. ^ “cosmos, n.3”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “cosmos2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. ^ Ant. Iosephi Cavanilles [i.e., Antonio José Cavanilles] (1791) “COSMOS”, in Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur [Images and Descriptions of Plants which either Grow Naturally in Spain, or are Hosted in Gardens], volume I, Madrid: […] Lazaro Gayguer, →OCLC, page 9.
  3. ^ Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
  4. ^ Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.

Further reading

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English

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Proper noun

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Cosmos

  1. A city in Minnesota.

Anagrams

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