Frankenia

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Translingual

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Etymology

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From Frankenius +‎ -ia, coined by Linnaeus to honor Johan Franck (1590–1661), a former Swedish botanist at the University of Uppsala. Sometimes mistakenly further Latinized as Francenia.

Proper noun

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Frankenia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Frankeniaceae – sea heaths.

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