Superbus
/soo-PER-bus/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: superba, superbum
An aesthetic superlative epithet meaning the plant is superb — of the finest quality, deserving the highest admiration. Appears as superbus (masculine), superba (feminine), or superbum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin superbus, meaning "superb" or "magnificent," from super (above) + esse (to be).
Example
“Dianthus superbus (superb pink) and Lilium superbum (turk's cap lily) are plants named by botanists who could find no more emphatic word for what they had found.”