Translingual

Plumbago europea growth habit

Plumbago auriculata flower

Proper noun

Plumbago f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Plumbaginaceae – the leadworts.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Hesperiidae – certain skipper butterflies.

Hypernyms

• (genus in Plumbaginaceae): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Caryophyllales - order; Plumbaginaceae - family; Plumbaginoideae - subfamily
• (genus in Hesperiidae): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Panorpida - superorder; Amphiesmenoptera - clade; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Papilionoidea - superfamily; Hesperiiformes - series; Hesperiidae - family; Pyrginae - subfamily; Pyrgini - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus of plant): Plumbago europaea - type species; Plumbago amplexicaulis, Plumbago aphylla, Plumbago auriculata, Plumbago ciliata, Plumbago caerulea, Plumbago dawei, Plumbago esquirolii, Plumbago glandulicaulis, Plumbago indica, Plumbago juncea, Plumbago lanceolata, Plumbago madagascariensis, Plumbago montis-elgonis, Plumbago pearsonii, Plumbago pulchella, Plumbago stenophylla, Plumbago toxicaria, Plumbago tristis, Plumbago wissii, Plumbago zeylanica - other species
• (genus of butterfly): Plumbago plumbago - type species; Plumbago pulverea, Plumbago serapion - other species

plant

• Plumbago on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plumbago on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Plumbago on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Plumbago on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Plumbago at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Plumbago at Encyclopedia of Life
• Plumbago at USDA Plants database
• Plumbaginaceae at APWeb
• Plumbago at The Plant List

butterfly

• Plumbago (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plumbago (Pyrginae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Pyrgini on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Pyrgini on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Plumbago at the Catalogue of Life 
• Pyrginae at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• (in progress 04/14/2014) at Encyclopedia of Life
• Plumbago at the Tree of Life Web Project

English

Noun

plumbago ‎(countable and uncountable, plural plumbagos or plumbagoes)

1. (mineralogy) graphite
2. (botany) leadwort

Synonyms

• graphite

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowing from Latin plumbāgō. See also plombagine.

Noun

plumbago m ‎(plural plumbagos)

1. (botany) plumbago

Synonyms

• dentelaire

Latin

Etymology

From plumbum ‎(“lead”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plumˈbaː.ɡoː/, [pɫʊmˈbaː.ɡoː]

Noun

plumbāgō f ‎(genitive plumbāginis); third declension

1. graphite
2. the color of graphite
3. leadwort

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

Descendants

• English: plumbago
• French: plombagine, plumbago
• Italian: piombaggine
• Spanish: plumbagíneo

References

• plumbago in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “plumbago”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.