Posidonia

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Posidonia f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Posidoniaceae – seagrasses.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; "Angiospermae" – superclass; Magnoliopsida – class; Lilianae – superorder; Alismatales – order; Posidoniaceae - family

• (genus): Posidonia oceanica - type species

• Posidonia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Posidonia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Posidonia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Posidonia at Tropicos
• Posidonia at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Posidonia at The Plant List

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ποσειδωνίᾱ (Poseidōníā).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔ.siːˈdoː.ni.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [po.s̬iˈd̪ɔː.ni.a]

Posīdōnia f sg (genitive Posīdōniae); first declension

1. synonym of Paestum (an ancient Greek city in Magna Graecia, on the coast of present-day Campania in southern Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Pŏsīdōnĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Pŏsīdōnĭa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,205.