Posidonia

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Posidonia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Posidoniaceae – seagrasses.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum; "Angiospermae" - superclass; Magnoliopsida - class; Lilianae - superorder; Alismatales - order; Posidoniaceae - family

• (genus): Posidonia oceanica - type species

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• Posidonia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Posidonia at The Plant List

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ποσειδώνια (Poseidṓnia).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /po.siːˈdoː.ni.a/, [pɔs̠iːˈd̪oːniä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /po.siˈdo.ni.a/, [pos̬iˈd̪ɔːniä]

Posīdōnia f sg (genitive Posīdōniae); first declension

1. Synonym of Paestum (an ancient Greek city in Magna Graecia, on the coast of present-day Campania in southern Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Pŏsīdōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pŏsīdōnĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,205.