araucaria

borrowed from New Latin, from Araucānus Araucanian (borrowed from Spanish araucano) + -āria ¹-ary ◆Genus name introduced by the French botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita (Paris, 1789), pp. 413-14. Jussieu adapted the name from Juan Ignacio Molina's Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili (Bologna, 1782): “Il Pehuen, Pinus Araucana … nasce spontaneamente presso gli Araucani, e si coltiva nelle altre parti del Regno” (“The Pehuen, Pinus Araucana … grows naturally near the Araucanians, and is cultivated in the other parts of the country”) (p. 182).