noun
Meaning 1
Any thistle of the genus Saussurea.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: snow lotus
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
saussurea
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noun
Meaning 2
genus of herbs of temperate and cool regions of Eurasia
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: genus Saussurea
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: asterid dicot genus
History
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Saussurea, itself from French Saussure (surname), after Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 風毛菊 /风毛菊 (fēngmáojú) — Translations
- Finnish: siniläätte — Translations
- Finnish: läätte — Translations
- German: Alpenscharte — Translations
- Hindi: हिम कमल (him kamal) — Translations
- Italian: saussurea — Translations
- Kazakh: шұбаршөп (şūbarşöp) — Translations
- Nepali: कपासे (kapāse) — Translations
- Russian: соссюре́я (sossjuréja) — Translations
- Russian: горьку́ша (gorʹkúša) — Translations
- Serbo-Croatian: alpski škrbavac — Translations
- Serbo-Croatian: kosmatulja — Translations
- Serbo-Croatian: planinska pilica — Translations
- Serbo-Croatian: sausureja — Translations
- Thai: บัวหิมะ (buua-hì-má) — Translations
- Ukrainian: сосюре́я (sosjuréja) — Translations
- Ukrainian: гірки́й ко́рінь (hirkýj kórinʹ) — Translations