The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromἀνδρός“husband”
- Ancient Greek · derived fromλῶμα“border, fringe”
- taxonomic name · borrowed fromLomandra
- English todaylomandra
Borrowed from taxonomic name Lomandra, from Ancient Greek λῶμα (lôma, “border, fringe”) + Ancient Greek ἀνδρός (andrós, “husband”), referring to the circular border of the anthers.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekἀνδρός all →
andro-gylany
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.