Cosmos
See also: cosmos
Translingual
Cosmos bipinnatus
Etymology
From New Latin cosmos, from Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “decoration, ornament”) (referring to its elegant leaves),[1] coined by the Spanish botanist Antonio José Cavanilles (1745–1804).[2][3][4]
Proper noun
Cosmos m
- A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – several American flowering plants.
Hypernyms
- (tribe): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae - family
Hyponyms
- (tribe): For species see
Cosmos (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Descendants
- → English: cosmos
References
- “cosmos, n.3”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023; “cosmos2, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. - Ant. Iosephi Cavanilles [i.e., Antonio José Cavanilles] (1791) “COSMOS”, in Icones et descriptiones plantarum, quæ aut sponte in Hispania crescunt, aut in hortis hospitantur [Images and Descriptions of Plants which either Grow Naturally in Spain, or are Hosted in Gardens], volume I, Madrid: […] Lazaro Gayguer, →OCLC, page 9.
- Hyam, Roger & Pankhurst, Richard, Plants and their Names. A Concise Dictionary, Oxford University Press, US, 1995.
- Erhardt, Walter & Götz, Erich & Bödeker, Nils & Seybold, Siegmund, Zander. Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen. Dictionary of plant names. Dictionnaire des noms de plantes, Ulmer, 2000.
Further reading
- Cosmos (flower) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cosmos on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Cosmos on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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