Palinurus

From Ancient Greek παλίν (palín, “back, backwards”) + οὐρά (ourá), οὐρή (ourḗ, “tail”).

Palinurus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Palinuridae – spiny lobsters.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea - subphylum; Malacostraca - class; Eumalacostraca - subclass; Eucarida - superorder; Decapoda - order; Pleocyemata - suborder; Achelata - infraorder; Palinuridae - family

• (genus): Palinurus elephas - type species

• Palinuroidea
• †Archaeopalinurus Pinna, 1974
• Linuparus
• Nupalirus
• †Palaeopalinurus
• †Palinurina
• Palinura

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παλίνουρος (Palínouros).

Palinūrus m sg (genitive Palinūrī); second declension

1. a male given name, character in the play Curculio of Plautus

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Palinurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Palinurus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.