Banksia

== Translingual == === Etymology === From English Banks (“a surname”) +‎ -ia. Named after the English botanist Joseph Banks, who collected the first specimens of the genus on his 1770 voyage to Australia with James Cook. First published in 1782 by Carolus Linnaeus the Younger. Earlier, in 1775, Forster & Forster had proposed the name Banksia for the genus now called Pimelia, but Linnaeus' use was accepted. === Proper noun === Banksia f A taxonomic genus within the family Proteaceae – banksias, with characteristic flower spikes and fruiting cones and heads, native to Australia. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots – clades; Proteales – order; Proteaceae – family; Grevilleoideae - subfamily; Banksieae - tribe; Banksiinae - subtribe ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Banksia subg. Banksia, Banksia subg. Isostylis - subgenera For species see Banksia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies ==== Descendants ==== → Russian: ба́нксия (bánksija) === References === Banksia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Banksia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Banksia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Banksia at USDA Plants database == English == === Proper noun === Banksia A suburb of Sydney in the Bayside council area, New South Wales, Australia. ==== Derived terms ====