Carthamus - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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From Medieval Latin carthamus, from Arabic قُرْطُم (qurṭum) for the genus, from Classical Syriac ܩܽܘܪܛܡܳܐ (qūrṭəmā, “safflower”), from ܩܰܪܛܶܡ (qarṭem, “to cut off gently, to trim”) from the plucking off petals which are used for dyeing.

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Asteraceae – the safflowers, the distaff thistles.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, asterids, euasterids II – clades; Asterales – order; Asteraceae – family; Carduoideae - subfamily; Cardueae - tribe; Centaureinae - subtribe

• (genus): Carthamus tinctorius - selected species; for other species see Carthamus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

• Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, pages 111–114