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Domesticus

/doh-MES-tih-kus/
🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate

Also known as: domestica, domesticum

An epithet indicating a plant that has been brought under human cultivation from a wild state — domesticated for food, fiber, ornament, or other use. It is the botanical equivalent of the label "domestic" and often appears on the cultivated form of a species that also has a wild counterpart. Appears as domesticus (masculine), domestica (feminine), or domesticum (neuter).

Etymology

From Latin domesticus, meaning "of the household" or "tamed," from domus (house, home).

Example

Malus domestica (the cultivated apple) is among the most important of all domesticated plants, its epithet marking millennia of human selection from wild crab apple ancestors.