英语词汇mahernia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Mahernia; Hermannia. One of the most unusual words, the plant genus Mahernia is an anagram of Hermannia, another genus to which it is closely allied. Linnaeus must have been in a playful mood when he coined the word from Herman- nia, which he had also named. Linnaeus named Hermannia for Paul Hermann (1646–95), a professor of botany at the University of Leyden, who is surely the only man to be hon- ored by two genera in this odd way. Hermannia is a large ge- nus, including some 80 species of ornamental, greenhouse evergreen shrubs, their flowers usually yellow. The closely re- lated anagram genus, Mahernia, includes about 30 species, which are pretty greenhouse herbs or small undershrubs of which the yellow, fragrant honeybell (M. verticillata) is most notable. Both genera are native to South Africa. See alsomho; quisqualis.

词汇	mahernia
词源	Mahernia; Hermannia. One of the most unusual words, the plant genus Mahernia is an anagram of Hermannia, another genus to which it is closely allied. Linnaeus must have been in a playful mood when he coined the word from Herman- nia, which he had also named. Linnaeus named Hermannia for Paul Hermann (1646–95), a professor of botany at the University of Leyden, who is surely the only man to be hon- ored by two genera in this odd way. Hermannia is a large ge- nus, including some 80 species of ornamental, greenhouse evergreen shrubs, their flowers usually yellow. The closely re- lated anagram genus, Mahernia, includes about 30 species, which are pretty greenhouse herbs or small undershrubs of which the yellow, fragrant honeybell (M. verticillata) is most notable. Both genera are native to South Africa. See alsomho; quisqualis.
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