ketmie

• ketmia

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ketmie (plural ketmies)

1. (archaic) A variety of African hibiscus, cultivated for the acid of its mucilage, Hibiscus sabdariffa.
2. Other species of hibiscus

• “ketmie”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Kemite

Calque of New Latin Ketmia,^[1] from Arabic.^[1]

ketmie f (plural ketmies)

1. (botany) synonym of hibiscus (Hibiscus)

• “ketmie” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “ketmie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.