Diapensia

See also: diapensia

Translingual

Etymology

Deriving from a misprinting in Leonhart Fuchs New Kreüterbuch (1543) for intended Medieval Latin dispēnsia from Medieval Latin dispēnsāre (“to free of disease”), synonym of sānicula now found in Sanicula.

Proper noun

Diapensia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Diapensiaceae – of alpine and arctic distribution.

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