Ocimum

== Translingual == === Etymology === From Latin ōcimum (“basil”), from Ancient Greek ὤκιμον (ṓkimon, “basil”). === Pronunciation === enPR: ŏ′sĭ-məm (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɒ.sɪ.məm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.sɪ.məm/ (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈoː.kɪ.mũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɔː.t͡ʃi.mum] === Proper noun === Ocimum n A taxonomic genus within the family Lamiaceae – aromatic herbs, principally native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids I – clades; Lamiales – order; Lamiaceae – family; Nepetoideae - subfamily; Ocimeae - tribe ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Ocimum americanum, Ocimum basilicum, Ocimum campechianum, Ocimum citriodorum, Ocimum gratissimum, Ocimum kilimandscharicum, Ocimum minimum, Ocimum neurophyllum, Ocimum selloi, Ocimum tenuiflorum - species === References === Ocimum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Ocimum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Ocimum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons Ocimum at USDA Plants database Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN