Emily Dickinson Lexicon

POL-I-AN'THES, n. [Gr. πόλις, a city, and ἄνθος, a flower, i. e. city-flower, because it is much cultivated in cities.]

The name of a genus of plants, one species of which, viz. Polianthes tuberosa, is cultivated, under the absurd name of Tuberose, which is merely a vicious pronunciation of its specific name.