that is, it is known empirically that names beginning with R are more common than those beginning with Z ; ;

Other common names are ear shells, sea ears, as well as muttonfish or muttonshells in Australia, ormer in Great Britain, and venus's-ears in South Africa and in New Zealand.

The current spelling, amaranth, seems to have come from folk etymology that assumed the final syllable derived from the Greek word anthos (" flower "), common in botanical names.

These names make it evident that the American broccoli, carrot, and onion are not indigenous to China and therefore are less common in the cuisines of China.

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.

The common name " naked lady " used for Amaryllis is also used for other bulbs with a similar growth and flowering pattern ; some of these have their own widely used and accepted common names, such as the resurrection lily ( Lycoris squamigera ).

The Arabs greatly increased the knowledge of astronomical cycles, and many of the star names that remain in common use today, such as Aldebaran, Altair, Betelgeuse, Rigel and Vega retain the legacy of their language.

** List of most common family names

Many names meant something along the lines of " wild man " or " hairy man " although other names described common actions it was said to perform ( e. g. eating clams ).

* baio-warioz: the first component is most plausibly explained as a Germanic version of Boii ; the second part is a common formational morpheme of Germanic tribal names, meaning ' dwellers ', as in Anglo-Saxon-ware ); this combination " Boii-dwellers " may have meant " those who dwell where the Boii formerly dwelt ".

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.

Unlike with geographical maps, where many famous projections are known ( such as the Mercator projection ), the calendar projection is a matter of such triviality that no names for these exist in common circulation.

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.

" Communist China " and " Red China " were two common names for the PRC.

The cane toad has many other common names, including " giant toad " and " marine toad "; the former refers to its size and the latter to the binomial name, Bufo marinus.

Other common names include " giant neotropical toad ", " Dominican toad ", " giant marine toad ", and " South American Cane Toad ".

The practice is known by many other names, the most common of which is Pascal case for upper camel case.

In German, the names to statutes are abbreviated using embedded capitals, e. g. StGB ( Strafgesetzbuch ) for criminal code, PatG ( Patentgesetz ) for Patent Act or the very common GmbH ( Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung ) for Company with Limited Liability.

The common FAT file system can have multiple files whose names differ only in case if the user uses a disk editor to edit the file names in the directory entries.

* Chimaera, one of the common names of a group of cartilaginous fishes, members of the order Chimaeriformes

This perhaps reflects the influence of widespread oral traditions common by 800 which are recorded in various place names and features such as Arthur's Seat indicating Arthur was a hero known and associated with many locations across Brittonic areas of Britain as well as Brittany.

This led medieval logicians to distinguish between what they called the quid nominis or ' whatness of the name ', and the underlying nature common to all the things it names, which they called the quid rei or ' whatness of the thing '.

While police control barriers are a common sight on African highways, and while illicit demands for bribes at such stops are common in many countries, the main Malian highway heading south from Bamako to the Burkina Faso border was singled out in late 2008 as the worst in West Africa.

The interviews also contain fans who engage in a range of illicit or unsavory activities, such as cel thieves, a pornography fan attempting to manufacture glasses to defeat the mosaic censorship common in Japanese porno videos and who is shown masturbating during the interview, and a computer gamer, who looks like Gainax member Hideaki Anno, obsessed with a character in a hentai computer game ( Noriko from Gunbuster who makes a cameo in Gainax's own hentai game: Cybernetic High School ).

In common parlance and legal usage, it is often used imprecisely to mean illicit drugs, irrespective of their pharmacology.

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine ( MDMA ), known by its common street name " Ecstasy ", is an illicit substance that typically comes in either tablet, capsule, or powder / crystal form.

Although not exactly equivalent to the English definition, the term " Контркультура " ( Kontrkul ' tura, " Counterculture ") became common in Russian to define a 1990s cultural movement that promoted acting outside of cultural conventions: the use of explicit language ; graphical descriptions of sex, violence and illicit activities ; and uncopyrighted use of " safe " characters involved in such activities.

This takes advantage of the extremely high prices of illicit drugs and the relatively low prices of common materials such as baking soda and oregano, as well as taking advantage of the similarity in appearances that certain house-hold items share with certain illicit drugs.

According to Griffin, the use of the term ' clerical fascism ' should be limited to " the peculiar forms of politics that arise when religious clerics and professional theologians are drawn either into collusion with the secular ideology of fascism ( an occurrence particularly common in interwar Europe ); or, more rarely, manage to mix a theologically illicit cocktail of deeply held religious beliefs with a fascist commitment to saving the nation or race from decadence or collapse ".

In the US, such substances appear to be more common than cannabis as the first " illicit " drug tried, and are relatively easy to obtain by adolescents.

Drugs, both prescribed and illicit, pesticides, natural products, pollutants and industrial compounds are some of the most common nonvolatile compounds encountered.

The emergence of resistance of bacteria to antibacterial drugs is a common phenomenon.

Widespread usage of antibacterial drugs in hospitals has also been associated with increases in bacterial strains and species that no longer respond to treatment with the most common antibacterials.

Prominent biomedical engineering applications include the development of biocompatible prostheses, various diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices ranging from clinical equipment to micro-implants, common imaging equipment such as MRIs and EEGs, regenerative tissue growth, pharmaceutical drugs and therapeutic biologicals.

Cocktails became less popular in the late 1960s and in the 1970s, as other recreational drugs became common.

Consistent with this hypothesis, studies that report the highest rates of PCP in Africa are those that use the most advanced diagnostic methods " Duesberg also claims that Kaposi's Sarcoma is " exclusively diagnosed in male homosexual risk groups using nitrite inhalants and other psychoactive drugs as aphrodisiacs ", but the cancer is fairly common among heterosexuals in some parts of Africa, and is found in heterosexuals in the United States as well.

MAOIs should be used with extreme caution as they can have lethal complications with some prescription drugs such as SSRI antidepressants, some over-the-counter drugs, and many common foods.

" It is quite common for an artist to use drugs, but not for him to tell everybody.

It is a common misconception that drugs such as heroin, oxycodone, and other opiates are the most physically dangerous in withdrawal.

Hydrocodone is one of the most common recreational prescription drugs in America, along with oxycodone.

As of 2011, it is not specifically tested for by common drug screens ( with the exception of anti-doping screens ) and is unlikely to cause false positives for other chemically-unrelated drugs such as amphetamines.

Some common examples of compounding are oxycodone with acetaminophen / paracetamol or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen.

Drug resistance poses a growing problem in the treatment of malaria in the 21st century, since resistance is now common against all classes of antimalarial drugs, except for the artemisinins.

One study found, of all drug classes prescribed by doctors including psychotropic drugs, fluoroquinolones were the most common cause of neuropsychiatric adverse effects.

Cinchonism is much less common when quinine is given by mouth, but oral quinine is not well tolerated ( quinine is exceedingly bitter and many patients will vomit after ingesting quinine tablets ): Other drugs such as Fansidar ( sulfadoxine with pyrimethamine ) or Malarone ( proguanil with atovaquone ) are often used when oral therapy is required.

The deliberate exploitation of artificial selection has become very common in experimental biology, as well as the discovery and invention of new drugs.

Closed eye hallucinations in darkness, which are common to psychedelic drugs ( i. e, LSD, mescaline ).

The prohibition of drugs through sumptuary legislation or religious law is a common means of attempting to prevent drug use.

Fortification of grains with lysine was shown to reduce markers of anxiety, including cortisol levels, and also led to potentiation of benzodiazepine receptors ( common targets of anxiolytic drugs such as Xanax and Ativan ).

The most common causes are heat stroke and adverse reactions to drugs.

There are no effective antiviral drugs for the common cold even though some preliminary research has shown benefit.

These are known as ' targeted primary health care outlet '- as these outlets primarily target people who inject drugs and / or ' low-threshold health care outlet '- as these reduce common barriers clients often face when they try to access health care from the conventional health care outlets.

* Substance abuse is a common problem in BPD, whether due to impulsivity or as a coping mechanism, and 50 percent to 70 percent of psychiatric inpatients with BPD have been found to meet criteria for a substance use disorder, especially alcohol dependence or abuse which is often combined with the abuse of other drugs.