Agalinis
noun
Ag·a·li·nis
ˌa-gə-ˈlī-nəs
: a genus of flaxlike American herbs (family Scrophulariaceae) with opposite sessile leaves and irregular tubular mostly purple flowers
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from New Latin, from Greek aga-, intensifying prefix (going back to Indo-European *mǵh2- "large, great") + New Latin -linis (derivative of Latin līnum "flax")
First Known Use
1913, in the meaning defined above
- archaecraniate
- archaei
- archaeo-
- archaeoastronomers
- archaeoastronomies
- archaeoastronomy
- archaeobacteriae
- archaeobacterias
- Archaeocalamites
- archaeocete
- Archaeoceti
- Archaeocyatha
- Archaeocyathus
- archaeocyte
- archaeogastropod
- Archaeogastropoda
- archaeogeology
- Archaeohippus
- archaeolatry
- archaeological
- archaeologically
- archaeologies
- archaeologist
- archaeologists
- archaeology