Hamadryas

 

 

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Hamadryas f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Ranunculaceae – perennial herbs of southern South America.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Nymphalidae – cracker butterflies, found from Arizona through much of South America.

• (genus in Ranunculaceae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots – clades; Ranunculales – order; Ranunculaceae – family; Ranunculoideae - subfamily; Ranunculeae - tribe
• (genus in Nymphalidae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Lepidoptera – order; Glossata – suborder; Heteroneura – infraorder; Ditrysia – division; Cossina – section; Bombycina – subsection; Papilionoidea – superfamily; Papilioniformes – series; Nymphalidae – family; Biblidinae - subfamily; Ageroniini - tribe

• (genus in Ranunculaceae): Hamadryas magellanica - type species
• (genus in Nymphalidae): Hamadryas amphinome (red cracker) - type species

plant

•   Hamadryas (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Hamadryas (Ranunculaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Category:Hamadryas (Ranunculaceae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Hamadryas at the Catalogue of Life 
• Hamadryas at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Hamadryas at Germplasm Resources Information Network
• Hamadryas at Plants of the World Online
• Hamadryas at Tropicos

butterfly

•   Hamadryas (butterfly) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•   Hamadryas (Nymphalidae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
•   Category:Hamadryas (Nymphalidae) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Hamadryas at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Hamadryas at the Catalogue of Life 
• Hamadryas at National Center for Biotechnology Information

• Amādrias (Medieval Latin)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἁμαδρυάς (Hamadruás).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /haˈmaː.dry.as/, [häˈmäːd̪ryäs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈma.dri.as/, [äˈmäːd̪riäs]

Hamādryas f sg (genitive Hamādryadis or Hamādryados); third declension

1. (Greek mythology) Hamadryad, mother of the hamadryads (woodnymphs)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Propertius to this entry?)

Third-declension noun (non-Greek-type or Greek-type, normal variant), singular only.

• Translingual: Hamadryas

• “Hamadryas”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “Hămādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• AMADRIADES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hamādryas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hămādry̆ădes in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “735/2”
• “Hamadryas” on page 785 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)