Palinurus

== Translingual == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek παλίν (palín, “back, backwards”) + οὐρά (ourá), οὐρή (ourḗ, “tail”). === Proper noun === Palinurus m A taxonomic genus within the family Palinuridae – spiny lobsters. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Crustacea – subphylum; Malacostraca – class; Eumalacostraca – subclass; Eucarida – superorder; Decapoda – order; Pleocyemata – suborder; Achelata – infraorder; Palinuridae – family ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Palinurus elephas – type species ==== Derived terms ==== === References === Palinurus (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Palinurus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Palinurus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Παλίνουρος (Palínouros). === Proper noun === Palinūrus m sg (genitive Palinūrī); second declension a male given name, character in the play Curculio of Plautus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Palinurus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Palinurus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.