If the latter, Amaryllis would be the correct name for the genus Hippeastrum, and a different name would have to be used for the genus discussed here.

The outcome was a decision by the 14th International Botanical Congress in 1987 that Amaryllis should be a conserved name ( i. e. correct regardless of priority ) and ultimately based on a specimen of the South African Amaryllis belladonna from the Clifford Herbarium at the British Museum.

In the parallel passage,, the name is given as Ahimelech ; most authorities consider this the more correct reading.

This is often incorrectly inferred from the correct fact that in all electrochemical devices negatively charged anions move towards the anode ( hence their name ) and positively charged cations move away from it.

Irish bua ( Classical Irish buadh ), Buaidheach, Welsh buddugoliaeth ), and that the correct spelling of the name in the British language is Boudica, pronounced ( the closest English equivalent to the vowel in the first syllable is the ow in " bow-and-arrow ").

* According to the letter of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, the correct name for this family should be Microcebidae, but the name Cheirogaleidae has been retained for stability.

Because of this, some say it would be more correct to name it schönfinkeling.

In some cases the correct name is not clear.

In addition to choosing a primary name for the language, Ethnologue also gives some of the names by which a language is called by its speakers, by the government, by foreigners and by neighbors, as well as how it has been named and referenced historically, regardless of which designation is considered official, politically correct or offensive or by whom.

Because official records may reflect many kinds of surname change, without explaining the underlying reason for the change, the correct identification of a person recorded identified with more than one name is challenging.

The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program cites the Indonesian name, Krakatau, as the correct name, but says that Krakatoa is often employed.

This development has been decried not only by adherents of the King James Only movement, but also by others, who hold that the King James Version is correct and that Isaiah 14: 12 refers to Satan under the name of " Lucifer ", or who hold that the reference to Satan is preeminent.

According to Joseph Anglade, a philologist and specialist of medieval literature who helped impose the then archaic term Occitan as the sole correct name, the word Lemosin was first used to designate the language at the beginning of the 13th century by Catalan troubadour Raimon Vidal de Besalú in his Razós de trobar

When Petrus Hispanus was elected pope in 1276 and chose the papal name John, he decided to correct this error by skipping the number XX.

It is considered likely that " Saxones " was an attempt by later scribes to correct a name that meant nothing to them.

Because Judaism forbids pronouncing the name outside the Temple in Jerusalem, the correct pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton may have been lost, as the original Hebrew texts only included consonants.

An important one of these was mistakenly labeled " Targum Jonathan " in later printed versions ( though all medieval authorities refer to it by its correct name ).

In an effort to correct this, Sampo Kaasila at Apple decided to write an entirely new format, which he worked on under the name Bass ( because it was a scalable font format, and you can scale a fish, and perhaps as in Bass-o-matic 76 from the Saturday Night Live sketch ) and later Royal.

Note that despite its name, Great Barrier Island not a sandbar barrier which is often defined as the correct use of the term.

Provided that taxonomists agree as to the limits of a species, it can have only one name that is correct under the appropriate nomenclature code, generally the earliest published if two or more names are accidentally assigned to a species.

These averaged about 14½ hands ( 4 ' 10 ", or 1. 47 m ) high and averaged 900 pounds ( 410 kg ) each ; thus, the name pony was appropriate, even if not strictly correct in all cases.

" The official lyrics have the correct version of the name, except that Minuit is spelled " Minuet.

In the United States, both state and federal appellate courts are usually restricted to examining whether the lower court made the correct legal determinations, rather than hearing direct evidence and determining what the facts of the case were.

Reason makes equal claim to each proof, since they are both correct, so the question of the limits of time must be regarded as meaningless.

A mixed economy is a largely market-based economy consisting of both private and public ownership of the means of production and economic interventionism through macroeconomic policies intended to correct market failures, reduce unemployment and keep inflation low.

Several influential stylebooks, both secular and religious, however, indicate that the correct form for referring to a cardinal in English is as " Cardinal < Name > < Surname >.

In contrast to both, most Conservative positions affirm the divine but nonverbal revelation of written Torah as the authentic, historically correct Jewish view.

The fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.

To correct this inequity, the rank of commodore as a single star flag officer was reinstated by both services in the early 1980s.

* By adding bits to each encoded unit, the redundancy allows both to detect errors in coded data and to correct them based on mathematical algorithms.

It is heavily utilized by the Database and Storage engines ( see above ) both to guarantee the correct execution of concurrent transactions, and ( different mechanisms ) the correctness of other DBMS processes.

* By adding bits to each encoded unit, the redundancy allows both to detect errors in coded data and to correct them based on mathematical algorithms.

It is heavily utilized by the Database and Storage engines ( see above ) both to guarantee the correct execution of concurrent transactions, and ( different mechanisms ) the correctness of other DBMS processes.

From this time, therefore, all disputes between Alexandria and Rome as to the correct date for Easter cease, as both churches were using identical tables.

For example, both the Egyptians and the Babylonians were aware of versions of the Pythagorean theorem about 1500 years before Pythagoras ; the Egyptians had a correct formula for the volume of a frustum of a square pyramid ;

The second choice of the three logical possibilities above for diamagnetic oxyhemoglobin being found correct by experiment, is not surprising: singlet oxygen ( possibility # 1 ) and large separations of charge ( possibility # 3 ) are both unfavorably high-energy states.

Proper technique is a necessity for staying injury free, with a focus on both mechanics and breathing, as correct rhythm, exhaling on the drive and inhaling on the recovery, is a stabilizing force for the upper body.

) is NP-complete, thus it is expected that no algorithm can be both correct and fast ( polynomial-time ) on all cases.

Note that there is no contradiction among these two results ; both computations are correct.

Many logically-based program transformation techniques have been developed to assist the programmer in this process, transforming programs that are correct but inefficient into programs that are both correct and efficient.

Thus both " there are myriad people outside " and " there is a myriad of people outside " are correct.

Nucleosomes are folded through a series of successively higher order structures to eventually form a chromosome ; this both compacts DNA and creates an added layer of regulatory control, which ensures correct gene expression.

In survey-type situations, these errors can be mistakes in the collection of data, including both the incorrect recording of a response and the correct recording of a respondent's inaccurate response.

Betting for value can apply to both made hand and drawing hand situations, although in the latter situation it is less often correct, as the drawing hand's chances of winning are generally lower.

Political correctness ( adjectivally, politically correct ; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC ) is a term which denotes language, ideas, policies, and behavior seen as seeking to minimize social and institutional offense in occupational, gender, racial, cultural, sexual orientation, certain other religions, beliefs or ideologies, disability, and age-related contexts, and, as purported by the term, doing so to an excessive extent.

I daresay both opinions were correct.