Tagetes

Etymology
From, , , a borrowing, originally meaning the pellitory of Spain , compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬 passed from Berber ; by confusion also meaning the feverfew  – the words in the word family  are possibly related. It was only in 1535 that with his African campaign, hit by the brilliance of their colours, introduced the first Tagetes species cultivated in Europe. Those at first bore many and sundry designations relating to their African or South American origins, but later a connection with the fabled pulcritude of the Etruscan divinity helped to cement this genus with this name, which in botanical literature was first erected, with this mythological explanation, by  1542 (in ).

Hypernyms

 * ; - subfamily;  - tribe

Hyponyms

 * - type species