Etymology

altheine

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taxonomic name Althaea
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The story

  1. taxonomic name · borrowed fromAlthaea“marshmallow genus”
  2. English todayaltheine

taxonomic name Althaea (“marshmallow genus”) + -ine

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.