helenium

From the genus name.

helenium (plural heleniums)

1. Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Helenium, the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
   • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16:

     Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.

   • 2016, Nancy J. Ondra, The Perennial Matchmaker: Create Amazing Combinations with Your Favorite Perennials:

     Heleniums mostly have an upright habit, though the taller ones may need staking in spring or cutting back by half in early summer to stay that way.

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• Helenium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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• Category:Helenium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἑλένιον (helénion), said to be named for Ἑλένη (Helénē) of Troy, who according to legend planted elecampane on the island of Pharos.^[1][2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [hɛˈɫɛ.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈlɛː.ni.um]

helenium n (genitive heleniī or helenī); second declension

1. elecampane (Inula helenium)

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• Translingual: Helenium

• “helenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• helenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.