rhapontique

French

Etymology

Adapted borrowing of New Latin Rhaponticum Haller (1742), from Rha, a name for the Volga river, + ponticum (“Pontic, of the Black Sea”), as the plant was supposedly originally found near the Volga.

Noun

rhapontique m (plural rhapontiques)

1. Rhaponticum Ludwig

   Hypernym: astéracées

   Hyponyms: leuzée conifère, serratule fausse-centaurée

References

• Culbreth, D. M. R. (1910). A Manual of Materia Medica and Pharmacology: Comprising All Organic and Inorganic Drugs which are Or Have Been Official in the United States Pharmacopoeia, Together with Important Allied Species and Useful Synthetics, Especially Designed for Students of Pharmacy and Medicine, as Well as for Druggists, Pharmacists, and Physicians. United States: Lea & Febiger., p. 12