Tabebuia
See also: tabebuia
Translingual
Etymology
Coined by Swiss botanist Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle in 1838,[1] based on the work of Bernardino António Gomes.[2]
Later authors would go on and make an etymology for the term, deriving it from Old Tupi *tacyba (“ant”) + *bebuya (“wood”), because hollowed-out tabebuias are often inhabited by ants,[3][4] but Gomes himself only stated it was a common name for the plant in Rio de Janeiro.[2] Also, although both terms exist in Old Tupi, tasyba refers specifically to fire ants and bebuî actually means “light-weight” — wood is ybyrá.
Proper noun
Tabebuia f
- (sensu lato) A taxonomic genus within the family Bignoniaceae – trees including certain trumpet trees, ipe, pau d’arco, and lapacho.
- (sensu stricto) A taxonomic genus within the family Bignoniaceae – excluding species now in Handroanthus and Roseodendron.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Lamiales – order; Bignoniaceae – family; Tecomeae – tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Tabebuia cassinoides; – type species; for other species see Tabebuia on WikispeciesWikispecies and Tabebuia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- Tabebuia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Tabebuia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Tabebuia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Tabebuia at USDA Plants database
- Tabebuia at The Plant List
- ^ Tabebuia protologue at the Biodiversity Heritage Library
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gomes, Bernardino Antonio (1803), Observações botanico-medicas sobre algumas plantas do Brazil (in Portuguese and Latin), volume II, Lisbon: Typografia da Academia Real das Sciencias, page 7
- ^ “Tabebuia”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ Gentry, Alwyn H. (1969), Tabebuia (Bignoniaceae) in Central America, Madison: University of Wisconsin–Madison, page 30: “Nevertheless, Gomes did introduce the word "tabebuia" a contraction of "tacyba bebuya" meaning "ant wood" in the Tupi Indian dialect ...”