The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀσμή“smell”
- taxonomic name · derived fromOsmanthus“genus of flowering shrubs”
- English todayosmanthus
From João de Loureiro's (1790) taxonomic name Osmanthus (“genus of flowering shrubs”), from Ancient Greek ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”) + ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”), for the strong scent of the Osmanthus fragrans.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekὀσμή all →
osmiumeuosmiteosmazomeosmeterium-osmiaosmicosmidrosisosmo-phantosmia
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.