Straussia

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Translingual

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from New Latin, from Lorenz Strauss, faculty advisor to Franz Peters whose 1666 university dissertation De Potu Coffi included the first European illustrations of the coffee plant, +‎ -ia.

Proper noun

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Straussia f

  1. (obsolete) A taxonomic genus within the family Rubiaceae – now merged into genus Psychotria.

Usage notes

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Originally used by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1830). Applied by Asa Gray (1860) to Hawaiian relatives of the coffee plant. Sometimes confused with North American Strauzia.

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