Ocimum

See also: ocimum

Translingual

Ocimum basilicum

Etymology

From Latin ōcimum (“basil”), from Ancient Greek ὤκιμον (ṓkimon, “basil”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ŏ′sĭ-məm
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɒ.sɪ.məm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɑ.sɪ.məm/
• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈoː.ki.mum/, [ˈoːkɪmʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈo.t͡ʃi.mum/, [ˈɔːt͡ʃimum]

Proper noun

Ocimum n

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Lamiaceae – aromatic herbs, principally native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World.

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; Nepetoideae - subfamily; Ocimeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Ocimum americanum, Ocimum basilicum, Ocimum campechianum, Ocimum citriodorum, Ocimum gratissimum, Ocimum kilimandscharicum, Ocimum minimum, Ocimum neurophyllum, Ocimum selloi, Ocimum tenuiflorum - species

References

• Ocimum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ocimum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Ocimum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ocimum at USDA Plants database
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN