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The genus name " atropa " comes from Atropos, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology, and the name " bella donna " is derived from Italian and means " beautiful woman " because the herb was used in eye-drops by women to dilate the pupils of the eyes to make them appear seductive.
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The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Allium.
The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".
The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.
Alder is the common name of a genus of flowering plants ( Alnus ) belonging to the birch family Betulaceae ).
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.
In 1753 Carl Linnaeus created the name Amaryllis belladonna, the type species of the genus Amaryllis.
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.
Although the 1987 decision settled the question of the scientific name of the genus, the common name " amaryllis " continues to be used differently.
Hybrids said to be between Amaryllis belladonna and Brunsvigia josephinae have been called × Amarygia, Neither hybrid genus name is accepted by the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.
Many individual names are formed by adding the suffix " ine " to the species or genus name.
The name Brassicaceae is derived from the included genus Brassica.
He used a two-part naming scheme where the first name represented the genus and the second the species.
The scientific name of an organism is generated from its genus and species, resulting in a single world-wide name for each organism.
When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.
The subgenus Rhinella is increasingly considered to constitute a distinct genus of its own, thus changing the scientific name of the cane toad.
The genus name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle ( aquila ), because the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw.
" Chipmunks have also been referred to as " striped squirrels ," " chippers ," " munks ," " timber tigers ," or " ground squirrels ," although the name " ground squirrel " usually refers to other squirrels, such as those of the genus Spermophilus.
Confusion between the two pathogens ' life-cycles led him to briefly recognize his genus Schizotrypanum, but following the description of Pneumocystis by others as an independent genus, Chagas returned to the use of the name Trypanosoma cruzi.
genus and comes
The name Ericaceae comes from the type genus Erica, which appears derived from the Greek word ereike.
The name of the genus, Pongo, comes from a 16th-century account by Andrew Battell, an English sailor held prisoner by the Portuguese in Angola, which describes two anthropoid " monsters " named Pongo and Engeco.
The term " tropane " comes from a genus in which they are found, Atropa ( the belladonna genus ).
The word torpedo comes from a genus of electric rays in the order Torpediniformes, which in turn comes from the Latin " torpere " ( to be stiff or numb ).
The genus name, Arabidopsis comes from Greek, meaning " resembling Arabis ".
The term comes from Latin genus " descent, family, type, gender ", cognate with – genos, " race, stock, kin ".
In the hierarchy of the binomial classification system, genus comes above species and below family.
The word " colobus " comes from Greek κολοβός kolobós (" docked "), and is so named because in this genus, the thumb is a stump.
The name ' Fabaceae ' comes from the defunct genus Faba, now included in Vicia.
While the bell pepper is a member of the Capsicum genus, it is the only Capsicum apart from Capsicum rhomboideum that does not produce capsaicin, a lipophilic chemical that can cause a strong burning sensation when it comes in contact with mucous membranes.
The genus name, Esox, comes from the Greek and Celtic for " big fish " and " salmon " ( see Esox: Name ).
Miscegenation comes from the Latin miscere, " to mix " and genus, " kind ".
The genus name Gavia comes from the Latin for " sea mew ", as used by ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder.
The genus name Gavia comes from the Latin for " sea mew ", as used by ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder.
The genus and species name " lota " comes from the old French " lotte ", fish named also " barbot " in this language.
In Latin, remora means " delay ", while the genus name Echeneis comes from Greek echein (" to hold ") and naus (" a ship ").
The genus name Podiceps comes from Latin podicis, " vent " or " anus ", and pes, " foot ", and is a reference to the placement of a grebe's legs towards the rear of its body.
The genus name of this species — Podiceps — comes from two Latin words: podicis, meaning " vent " or " anus " and pes meaning " foot ".
The genus name Aechmophorus comes from the Ancient Greek words " aichme ", meaning spear, and " phoros ", meaning someone who bears things around ; it refers to the bird's long, daggerlike beak.
The binomial name is of Greek origin ; Phylloscopus comes from phyllon / φυλλον, " leaf ", and skopeo / σκοπεω, " to look at " or " to see ", since this genus comprises species that spend much of their time feeding in trees, while collybita is a corruption of kollubistes, " money changer ", the song being likened to the jingling of coins.
Ajnas is the plural form of jins, which in Arabic comes from the Latin word genus, meaning " type ".
The genus name Tadorna comes from Celtic roots and means " pied waterfowl ", essentially the same as the English " shelduck ".
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The genus Amoeba and amoeboids in general both derive their names from the ancient Greek word for change.
The rough-skinned newt ( Taricha granulosa ) from North America and other members of its genus contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), the most toxic non-protein substance known and almost identical to that produced by pufferfish.
The challenge to the status has focused on the Agnostina partly because juveniles of one genus have been found with legs greatly different from those of adult trilobites, suggesting they are not members of the lamellipedian clade, of which trilobites are a part.
The family includes a single genus, Ixiolirion, with four species distributed from Egypt to central Asia.
The family also has important ornamentals, mainly from the dominant genus Allium, but also including genera such as Ipheion.
Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, distinguished from the other subgenera by the corrugated shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.
Heinrich Göppert named the common amber-yielding pine of the Baltic forests Pinites succiniter, but as the wood does not seem to differ from that of the existing genus it has been also called Pinus succinifera.
In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.
These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.
Ailanthus (; derived from ailanto, an Ambonese word probably meaning " tree of the gods " or " tree of heaven ") is a genus of trees belonging to the family Simaroubaceae, in the order Sapindales ( formerly Rutales or Geraniales ).
The genus is native from east Asia south to northern Australasia.
He identified the mould as being from the Penicillium genus, and, after some months of calling it " mould juice ", named the substance it released penicillin on 7 March 1929.
vine, usually mixed with the leaves of dimethyltryptamine ( DMT )- containing species of shrubs from the genus Psychotria.
As the difference is potential within the genus ; that is, an animal may or may not be rational, the difference is not identical to, and may be distinct from, the genus.
In a single sentence, parallel to Aristotle's statement asserting that being is substance, St. Thomas pushes away from the Aristotelian doctrine: " Being is not a genus, since it is not predicated univocally but only analogically.
Most of the kinds commonly eaten fresh or dried, those of the genus Phaseolus, come originally from the Americas, being first seen by a European when Christopher Columbus, during his exploration, of what may have been the Bahamas, found them growing in fields.
Indian-born Ananda Chakrabarty, working for General Electric, had developed a bacterium ( derived from the Pseudomonas genus ) capable of breaking down crude oil, which he proposed to use in treating oil spills.
Sponges are known from spicules and anchor ropes, and include various forms such as the Calcispongea Cotyliscus and Girtycoelia, the demosponge Chaetetes, and the genus of unusual colonial glass sponges Titusvillia.
In botany the Circaea are plants belonging to the enchanter's nightshade genus named from her.
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