The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἅπαξ“once”
- English todayhapaxanth
From Ancient Greek ἅπαξ (hápax, “once”) + -anth (“flower”). The term was first used by Alexander Braun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hapaxanth
Today it means: A plant of a kind that flowers only once in its lifetime and then dies. Full definition →
Ancient Greek ἅπαξ