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Adenium
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adenium
Translingual
mul
Etymology
1819 after mul ar عَدَن used for this plant, although the type specimen has already been collected in 1763 by Forsskål – he called it Nerium obesum and used the Arabic name for mul Adenia 1.
Proper noun
n 1
genus family Apocynaceae adenia, native to Africa and the Middle East
Hypernyms
genus ; Apocynoideae subfamily subfamily; Nerieae tribe tribe; Neriinae subtribe subtribe
Hyponyms
genus Adenium obesum species (desert rose) type species
References
1 Adenium
1 Adenium
Adenium 1
mul Dogbane family plants