agathosma
noun
ag·a·thos·ma
ˌa-gə-ˈthäz-mə
1
capitalized : a genus of southern African shrubs (family Rutaceae) having heathlike foliage from which a sulfur-containing oil used in folk medicine is obtained and numerous small flowers in dense heads
2
plural -s : any plant of the genus Agathosma, several of which are cultivated in the cool greenhouse
Word History
Etymology
New Latin, from agath- + -osma
First Known Use
1819, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- parrot fish
- parrot green
- parrot jaw
- parrot mouth
- parrot tulip
- parrot wrasse
- parrot's-beak
- parrot's-beaks
- parrot's-bill
- parrot's-bills
- parrot's-feather
- parrot's-feathers
- parrot-back chair
- parrot-cry
- parrot-fashion
- parrot-mouthed
- parrotbeak
- parrotbeaks
- parrotbill
- parroted
- parroters
- parrotfish
- parrotfishes
- parrotiae
- parrotias