See Also: smilodon(medicine)

wichuraiana (iou) and smilodon (medicine)


wichuraiana (iou)



wichuraiana noun. E20.
[mod. Latin (see below), from Max Ernst Wichura (1817-66), German botanist.]
Any of several rambling roses, usu. with small glossy leaves and clustered flowers, derived from Rosa wichuraiana, a prostrate evergreen rose of eastern Asia. Also more fully wichuraiana rose.

smilodon (medicine)


smilodon
<paleontology> An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Machrodus.

Origin: Gr. A carving knife +, tooth.

Source: Websters Dictionary