godetia

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noun

Any of several flowering plants of the taxonomic section of Clarkia, Clarkia sect. Godetia.

Origintranslingual Godetia →
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Meanings

noungodetia (plural godetias)

plural godetias

  1. Any of several flowering plants of the taxonomic section of Clarkia, Clarkia sect. Godetia.

    This annual plant resembles the clarkia so strongly that all godetias are now classified as clarkias. But we will mention them individually here because most seed catalogues still do the same.

    1999, Hanneke Van Dijk, Encyclopedia of Border Plants, page 150

Origin

  1. translingualGodetia
  2. Englishgodetia

From translingual Godetia, a former genus name and now a basionym, having been reused as a section name.

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godetia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/godetia

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Chicago

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