Petunia

See also: petunia, pétunia, petúnia, and petunią

Translingual

Petunia flowers

Etymology

From New Latin Petunia, from French pétun (“(obsolete) the tobacco plant”), from Portuguese petum (“tobacco”), from Paraguayan Guaraní pety.

Proper noun

Petunia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Solanaceae – petunias, native to South America.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I - clades; Solanales - order; Solanaceae - family; Petunioideae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus): Petunia axillaris (large white petunia, white-moon petunia) - type species; Petunia alpicola, Petunia altiplana, Petunia bajeensis, Petunia bonjardinensis, Petunia exserta, Petunia guarapuavensis, Petunia helianthemoides, Petunia humifusa, Petunia inflata, Petunia integrifolia, Petunia interior, Petunia ledifolia, Petunia littoralis, Petunia mantiqueirensis, Petunia occidentalis, Petunia patagonica, Petunia pubescens, Petunia reitzii, Petunia riograndensis, Petunia saxicola, Petunia scheideana, Petunia variabilis, Petunia villadiana (species)

Derived terms

• Petunia vein banding virus

See also

• List of sequenced plant genomes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Petunia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Petunia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Petunia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Petunia at USDA Plants database

English

Etymology

From petunia

Proper noun

Petunia

1. (dated) A female given name from English.