Leucothoe

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Leucothoe f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – doghobbles, dog-laurel, etc., native from Tibet to Japan and Vietnam, and in the US.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids – clades; Ericales – order; Ericaceae – family; Vaccinioideae – subfamily; Gaultherieae – tribe

• (genus): Leucothoe axillaris (coastal doghobble) – type species; |Leucothoe davisiae (black laurel), Leucothoe fontanesiana (highland doghobble), Leucothoe griffithiana, Leucothoe keiskei – other accepted species

• Leucothoe grayana (syn. of Eubotryoides grayana)
• Leucothoe populifolia (syn. of Agarista populifolia)
• Leucothoe racemosa (swamp doghobble, sweetbells, syn. of Eubotrys racemosus)
• Leucothoe recurva (redtwig doghobble, syn. of Eubotrys recurvus)
• Leucothoe tonkinensis (syn. of Leucothoe griffithiana)

• Leucothoe (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Leucothoe (Ericaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Leucothoe on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Leucothoe at Plants of the World Online
• Leucothoe at USDA Plants database
• Leucothoe at Tropicos
• Leucothoe available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• Leucothoe at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Leucothoe at the Catalogue of Life 
• Leucothoe at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Leucothoe at Germplasm Resources Information Network

From Ancient Greek Λευκοθόη (Leukothóē).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫɛu̯ˈkɔ.tʰo.eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [leu̯ˈkɔː.to.e]

Leucothoē f sg (genitive Leucothoēs); first declension

1. Leucothoe, daughter of Orchamus and Eurynome

First-declension noun (feminine, Greek-type, nominative singular in -ē), singular only.

• “Leucothoe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press