Translingual

Proper noun

Bidens f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – beggarticks of warm and tropical climates.

Synonyms

• (genus): black jack, burr marigold, cobbler's peg, Spanish needle, stickseed, tickseed, tickseed sunflower

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II - clades; Asterales - order; Asteraceae - family; Asteroideae - subfamily; Coreopsideae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Bidens tripartita - type species; for other species see Bidens on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Coordinate terms

• (genus): Coreopsis

Latin

Adjective

bidens m, f, n ‎(genitive bidentis); third declension

1. two-pronged
2. having two blades or teeth

Inflection

Third declension.

Descendants

• Translingual: Bidens

References

• bidens in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• bidens in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• BIDENS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “bidens”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• bidens in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• bidens in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin