Etymograph

English

alternanthera

Alternanthera comes from mul-tax Alternanthera.

  1. mul-taxmodernAlternanthera
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009alternanthera

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. mul-taxmodernAlternanthera
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009alternanthera

Earliest quotation: 2009, Lynden B Miller, Parks Plants and People: Beautifying The Urban Landscape: “Various cultivars of purple-leaved Heuchera (coral bells), crimson-leaved annuals…”

Today it means

noun Any of the herbaceous plants in the genus Alternanthera in the amaranth family.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / mul-tax Alternanthera / alternanthera