Vaccinium

See also: vaccinium

Translingual

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-Europeander.?

Latin vacca

Proto-Indo-European *-nós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos

Proto-Italic *-īnos

Latin -īnus

Latin vaccīnus

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

Latin -ium

Ancient Greek ὑάκινθος (huákinthos)influ.

Latin vaccīniumbor.

Translingual Vaccinium

Borrowed from Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).

Vaccinium n

A taxonomic genus within the family Ericaceae – shrubs including the cranberry, blueberry, bilberry or whortleberry, farkleberry, cowberry or lingonberry, and some huckleberry.
- 2024, W. John Kress, foreword by Margaret D. Lowman, Smithsonian:Trees of North America (in English), page 690:
  Although most of the numerous species of the genus Vaccinium are shrubs of various sizes, the farkleberry (Vaccinium arboretum) deserves to be called a small tree, so it is included here.

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids – clades; Ericales – order; Ericaceae – family; Vaccinioideae – subfamily; Vaccinieae – tribe

(genus): Vaccinium uliginosum – type species; Vaccinium erythrocarpum, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Vaccinium myrtillus, Vaccinium oxycoccos – selected other species; for sections and other species, see Vaccinium on WikispeciesWikispecies ; for sections see Vaccinium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia