Etymology

orthosiphon

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Today it means: Any herbaceous shrub of the genus Orthosiphon. Full definition →

translingual Orthosiphon
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  1. translingual · borrowed fromOrthosiphon
  2. English todayorthosiphon

Borrowed from translingual Orthosiphon, itself from Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + Ancient Greek σῑ́φων (sī́phōn, “pipe, tube”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.