Where does “lipstick tree” come from?

lipstick tree (English) comes from English lipstick, from English lip, from German lippe, from Yiddish ליפּ, from Middle High German lippe, from Old High German *lippa, from Proto-Germanic *lippjō.

lipstick tree (English): The shrub "Bixa orellana", of tropical regions of...

Definitions

  1. The shrub "Bixa orellana", of tropical regions of...

Ancestry of “lipstick tree”, step by step

lipstick tree traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English lipstick

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlipstickMakeup for the lips; A stick of this make-up; To...
2EnglishlipEither of the two fleshy protrusions around the...
3Germanlippelip
4Yiddishליפּlip
5Middle High Germanlippe—
6Old High German*lippa—
7Proto-Germanic*lippjō—

via English tree

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishtreeA perennial woody plant, not exactly defined, but...
2Middle EnglishtreA tree or a plant that resembles one
Every word from Proto-Germanic *lippjō →