'aromadendrin' originates from Neo-Latin/modern botanical naming, likely built from the element 'aroma' (Latin/Greek-derived, meaning 'scent') combined with the Greek 'dendron' meaning 'tree', forming a name indicating a scented-tree–derived substance.

'aromadendrin' was coined in phytochemical literature in the late 19th to 20th century as chemists named compounds after their source plants; the term combined 'aroma' + 'dendron' to indicate origin from aromatic trees and eventually became the standard chemical name for the flavanonol now also known as 'dihydrokaempferol'.

Initially the name indicated a substance 'from aromatic trees' or 'aromatic-tree substance'; over time it came to denote the specific chemical compound now defined as the flavanonol dihydrokaempferol.