Hamamelidanthium

noun

Ham·​a·​mel·​i·​dan·​thi·​um

: a genus of fossil plants having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel and found in amber of Oligocene age in the region of the Baltic sea

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from Hamamelid-, Hamamelis + -anthemum

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