rhamnus

Wikispecies

From the genus name.

rhamnus (plural rhamnuses)

1. (botany) Any of the plants in the genus Rhamnus; a buckthorn.

Alteration of rhamnos (“buckthorn”), from Ancient Greek ῥάμνος (rhámnos), influenced by Rhamnus f (“Nemesis”)

rhamnus f (genitive rhamnī); second declension

1. (Late Latin) buckthorn

Second-declension noun.

• → Welsh: rhafn, rhafnwydd (semi-learned)

• rhamnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “rhamnus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rhamnus”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly