The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromφλόος“bark”
- English todayphlorizin
From Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “bark”) + ῥίζα (rhíza, “root”) + -in.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekφλόος all →
phloemphlobaphene
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.