Etymology

lobelia

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Today it means: A member of the genus Lobelia, flowering plants in the Lobelioideae subfamily of family Campanulaceae, containing many species, some of which are garden plants. Full definition →

translingual Lobelia
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The story

  1. translingual · learned borrowing fromLobelia
  2. English todaylobelia

Internationalism. Learned borrowing from translingual Lobelia.

Words from the same roots

translingualLobelia all →

lobeline

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