Sophora

See also: sophora

Translingual

Sophora tomentosa

Etymology

Coined by Linnaeus in 1753 from an "ancient name" for a similar plant, presumed taking over the epithet of the medicinal and yellow-flowered Arabian Senna sophera syn. Cassia sophera the epithet of which derives from the Indonesian name for Senna siamea now spelled johar, juar, juwar, secondarily connected to the Arabic triliteral root ص ف ر (ṣ-f-r) and the plant name صُفَيْرَاء (ṣufayrāʔ), from أَصْفَر (ʔaṣfar, “yellow”), under influence of Ancient Greek σοφός (sophós, “wise”) in order to make a pun.

Proper noun

Sophora f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Fabaceae – a group of shrubs and small trees in the pea family of diverse appearance and widespread distribution.

Hypernyms

• (genus): 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; Faboideae - subfamily; Sophoreae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Sophora tomentosa - type species; for other species see Sophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

References

• Sophora on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sophora on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sophora on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Sophora at USDA Plants database
• Sophora at Tropicos
• Sophora at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Sophora at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Sophora at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Sophora at The Plant List
• Sophora at World Register of Marine Species
• Genaust, Helmut (1996) “Sophora”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3^rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, page 596a