any plant of the Eurasian and N African genus Doronicum, such as leopard's-bane, having yellow daisy-like flower heads: family Asteraceae (composites)
Word origin
C17: New Latin, from Arabic dorūnaj
doronicum in American English
(dəˈrɑnəkəm)
noun
any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, comprising the leopard's-banes
Word origin
[1600–10; ‹ NL ‹ Ar dārūn(aj) (‹ Pers darūnak) + L -icum, neut. of -icus-ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1600–10. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: adaptation, criticism, progressive, quarantine, skid-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)