Hammada

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic حَمَادَة (ḥamāda, “hamada”), the type of environment plants of this genus are found in. Coined by Russian (Soviet) botanist Modest Mikhailovich Ilyin in 1948.

Proper noun

Hammada f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Amaranthaceae – the hammadas; certain plants which grow in arid climates in the Middle East and Uzbekistan.

Descendants

  • → Arabic: (semantic loan, reborrowing) حَمَادَة (ḥamāda)
  • → English: hammada

See also

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