Parkia

Translingual

Etymology

From English Park (surname) +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

Parkia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – certain trees of western Africa, including African locust beans.
2. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Lutjanidae – certain snappers of tropical reefs, Lutjanus (Parkia).

Hypernyms

• (genus in Fabaceae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids – clades; Fabales – order; Fabaceae – family; Mimosoideae – subfamily; Mimoseae – tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus in Fabaceae): Parkia africana – type species
• (subgenus): Parkia furvicaudata, now Lutjanus lemniscatus – type species

Descendants

• → Czech: parkie (learned)
• → English: parkia
• → Korean: 파르키아 (pareukia) (transliteration)
• → Russian: па́ркия (párkija) (transliteration)

References

in Fabaceae

• Parkia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Parkia (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Parkia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Parkia at The Plant List

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “Parkia”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.