Grayia

See also: grayia

Translingual

Etymology

From English Gray (surname) +‎ -ia.

  • (plant genus): Named after Asa Gray. Coined by English botanist and botanical illustrator William Jackson Hooker and by British botanist George Arnott Walker Arnott in 1840.
  • (snake genus): Named after John Edward Gray. Coined by Anglo-German zoologist Albert Günther in 1858.
  • (chromist genus): Coined by botanist Edmund Grove and by botanist Jacques-Joseph Brun in 1892. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Who is this sense eponymous to?”)

Pronunciation

  • English: enPR: grā′-ē-ə
    • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹeɪ.i.ə/

Proper noun

Grayia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Amaranthaceae – the hopsages.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Colubridae – the African water snakes.
  3. (obsolete, †) A taxonomic genus within the family Biddulphiaceae – certain extinct chromists; synonym of Neograya.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: grayia

See also

plant genus
snake genus
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