barbeyaceae
|bar/bey/a/ceae|
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/ˌbɑɹbeɪˈeɪsiː/
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/ˌbɑːbeɪˈeɪsiː/
plant family named after Barbey
Etymology
'Barbeyaceae' originates from New Latin botanical naming: it is formed from the genus name 'Barbeya' (itself named after the Swiss botanist William Barbey) plus the standard family-forming Latin suffix '-aceae'.
'Barbeyaceae' was created in modern botanical Latin by adding the suffix '-aceae' to the genus name 'Barbeya' (a genus named to honour William Barbey), producing the family name used in scientific classification.
Initially the root 'Barbeya' referred to the genus named for the botanist William Barbey; over time the constructed name 'Barbeyaceae' has come to denote the taxonomic family of plants related to that genus.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a botanical family of flowering plants (a plant family) comprising the genus Barbeya; native to parts of the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
The Barbeyaceae is a small family of flowering plants containing the single genus Barbeya.
Last updated: 2026/01/14 07:48