( The common misconception that he was Dutch and that his first name was Hendrik stem from Dutch documents of his third voyage.

The name Achilleus was a common and attested name among the Greeks soon after the 7th century BC.

A more or less typical monocotyledon, the species can be recognized by its shortly branched inflorescence covered with branched hairs ( giving rise to the common name of Lamb's-tail ).

Although the name actually applies to a group of snakes, it is often used to refer only to one species in particular, the common or green anaconda, Eunectes murinus, which is one of the largest snakes in the world.

Category: Boinae by common name

At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name one of the most common search strings on Google.

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The most common explanation suggests that the name was taken from the railway station in Marple, Stockport, through which Christie passed, with the alternative account that Christie took it from the home of a Marple family who lived at Marple Hall, near her sister Madge's home at Abney Hall.

The most common is Martin Waldseemüller's deriving it from Americus Vespucius, the Latinised version of Amerigo Vespucci's name, the Italian merchant and cartographer who explored South America's east coast and the Caribbean sea in the early 16th century.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

The last whorl ( known as the body whorl ) is auriform, meaning that the shell resembles an ear, giving rise to the common name " ear shell ".

Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants ( Alnus ) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae ).

The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root, also found to be the translation of the Old French verne for alder or copse of alders.

The present state of the evidence therefore suggests that their engravers and the Basilidians received the mystic name from a common source now unknown.

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

For many years there was confusion amongst botanists over the generic names Amaryllis and Hippeastrum, one result of which is that the common name " amaryllis " is mainly used for cultivars of the genus Hippeastrum, widely sold in the winter months for their ability to bloom indoors.

This is one of numerous genera with the common name " lily " due to their flower shape and growth habit.

The common name " naked lady " stems from the plant's pattern of flowering when the foliage has died down.

Although the 1987 decision settled the question of the scientific name of the genus, the common name " amaryllis " continues to be used differently.

Other common names for the blue whale have included Sibbald's rorqual ( after Sibbald, who first described the species ), the great blue whale and the great northern rorqual.

After the sinking of the Essex of Nantucket by a whale, on November 20, 1820, ( an important source event for Herman Melville's Moby-Dick ) the survivors, in three small boats, resorted, by common consent, to cannibalism in order for some to survive.

Less commonly seen animals include cuvier's beaked whale, false killer whale, pygmy sperm whale, dwarf sperm whale, risso's dolphin, common dolphin, humpback whale and Bryde's whale.

The common name of the whale comes from its coloration.

The primary species hunted are the common minke whale and Antarctic minke whale, two of the smallest species of baleen whales.

Raised an Orthodox Christian, Kandinsky drew upon the Jewish and Christian stories of Noah's Ark, Jonah and the whale, Christ's resurrection, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse in the book of Revelation, Russian folktales and the common mythological experiences of death and rebirth.

At Monterey Bay, California sea lions appear to be the more common food items for transient mammal-eating killer whale pods.

The only whale common in Danish waters is the Harbour Porpoise Phocoena phocaena.

Taxonomists further categorize the common minke whale into two or three subspecies ; the North Atlantic minke whale, the North Pacific minke whale and dwarf minke whale.

Writing in his 1998 classification, Rice recognized two of the subspecies of the common minke whale-B. a. scammoni ( Scammon's minke whale ) and a further ( taxonomically ) unnamed subspecies found in the Southern Hemisphere to which he gave the common name the dwarf minke whale ( first described by Best, 1986 ).

In addition, at least one wild hybrid between a common minke whale and an Antarctic minke whale has been confirmed.

However, it is more common in the field of conservation today that the training required to become a practicing conservator comes from a recognized university course in conservation.

The word chemistry comes from the word alchemy, an earlier set of practices that encompassed elements of chemistry, metallurgy, philosophy, astrology, astronomy, mysticism and medicine ; it is commonly thought of as the quest to turn lead or another common starting material into gold.

The first of these symbols were intended to be fully universal ; since Latin was the common language of science at that time, they were abbreviations based on the Latin names of metals – Cu comes from Cuprum, Fe comes from Ferrum, Ag from Argentum.

The humour in clowning comes from the self-deprecating actions of the performer, rather than the audience laughing with the performer as is common with other forms of comedy.

In England, the clerks of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, made a practice of using the Latin word consul rather than the more common comes when translating his title of ' Earl '.

Its common name comes from the word for " joy ".

Some official bodies have adopted the proposed Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy almost entirely, however a more common approach worldwide has been to retain the traditional groupings, and modify rather than replace them in the light of new evidence as it comes to hand.

The original phrase " the common-wealth " or " the common weal " ( echoed in the modern synonym " public weal ") comes from the old meaning of " wealth ," which is " well-being ", and is itself a loose translation of the Latin res publica ( republic ).

The common name " columbine " comes from the Latin for " dove ", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together.

Heart of Midlothian are known as the " Jambos ", which comes from " Jam Tarts " which is the rhyming slang for " Hearts " which is the common abbreviation of the Clubs name.

In the most common system, multiple television channels ( as many as 500 ) are distributed to subscriber residences through a coaxial cable, which comes from a trunkline supported on utility poles originating at the cable company's local distribution facility, called the headend.

They can be temporarily lost when a character sustains wounds in combat or otherwise comes to harm, and loss of HP is the most common way for a character to die in the game.

The scientific name Fringillidae comes from the Latin word fringilla for the Chaffinch ( Fringilla coelebs ) – a member of that last subfamily – which is common in Europe.

The prefix hyper-( comes from the Greek prefix " υπερ -" and means " over " or " beyond ", while having common origins with the English word " super ") signifies the overcoming of the old linear constraints of written text.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

It appears that sIBM and polymyositis share some common features, especially the initial sequence of immune system activation, however, polmyositis comes on over weeks or months, does not display the subsequent muscle degeneration and protein abnormalities as seen in IBM, and as well, polymyositis tends to respond well to treatments, IBM does not.

The best evidence of Aristotle's having thought there was a natural law comes from the Rhetoric, where Aristotle notes that, aside from the " particular " laws that each people has set up for itself, there is a " common " law that is according to nature.

Both countries share strong common ground when it comes to culture.

The best evidence of Aristotle's having thought there was a natural law comes from the Rhetoric, where Aristotle notes that, aside from the " particular " laws that each people has set up for itself, there is a " common " law that is according to nature.

The term comes from Latin and is literally translated " the thing itself speaks ", but the sense is well conveyed in the more common translation, " the thing speaks for itself.

The concept of an inherited cultural patrimony from a common origin rapidly became central to a divisive question within romantic nationalism: specifically, is a nation unified because it comes from the same genetic source, that is because of race, or is the participation in the organic nature of the " folk " culture self-fulfilling?

Slang may fall into disuse over time ; sometimes, however, it grows more and more common until it becomes the dominant way of saying something, at which time it usually comes to be regarded as mainstream, acceptable language ( e. g. the Spanish word caballo or the English word ain't ), although in the case of taboo words there may not be an expression which is considered mainstream or acceptable.