The name thyroid-stimulating hormone ( TSH ) has been given to a substance found in the anterior pituitary gland of all species of animal so tested for its presence.

There is Mijbil, an otter who travelled with Maxwell -- and gave Maxwell's name to a new species -- from the Tigris marshes to his London flat.

Urodela is a name sometimes used for all the extant species of salamander.

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.

However, this name is used to refer to the brown vine snake, Ahaetulla pulverulenta, a slender, arboreal species that grows to five feet ( 152 cm ) at most and feeds only on small vertebrates.

In 1753 Carl Linnaeus created the name Amaryllis belladonna, the type species of the genus Amaryllis.

Many individual names are formed by adding the suffix " ine " to the species or genus name.

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.

The best-known bee species is the European honey bee, which, as its name suggests, produces honey, as do a few other types of bee.

The Paleocene recovery of plants began with recolonizations by fern species, represented as a fern spike in the geologic record ; this same type of fern recolonization was observed after the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption .< ref name =" SchultzDhondt ">

The species derives its common name from its use against the cane beetle ( Dermolepida albohirtum ).

The patterned fabric also gave its name to two species of North American crabs ; see the calico crab.

The species name troglodytes, Greek for " cave-dweller ", was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his book De generis humani varietate nativa liber (" on the natural varieties of the human genus ") published in 1776, This book was based on his dissertation presented one year before ( it had a date 16 Sep 1775 printed on its title page ) to the University of Göttingen for internal use only, thus the dissertation did not meet the conditions for published work in the sense of zoological nomenclature.

The type species is Dsungaripterus weii, the specific name honouring paleontologist C. M.

Only gems that are medium to dark in tone are considered emerald ; light-toned gems are known instead by the species name green beryl.

However, if these species do indeed constitute their own genus, then they may be given their own name, the Paranthropus.

Fox is a common name for many species of omnivorous mammals belonging to the Canidae family.

Often the species of mafic minerals is included in the name, for instance, hornblende-bearing granite, pyroxene tonalite or augite megacrystic monzonite, because the term " granite " already assumes content with feldspar and quartz.

The species takes its name from its discoverer, the Swiss naturalist Emil August Goeldi.

The generic name is derived from the Spanish and Portuguese name for the species, and the specific name impennis is from Latin and refers to the lack of flight feathers or pennae.

The name presumably derives from the French royal house which never learned and never forgot ; ;

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

The name affirming the consequent derives from the premise Q, which affirms the " then " clause of the conditional premise.

EveR-1's name derives from the Biblical Eve, plus the letter r for robot.

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

The main feature of the family is the composite flower type in the form of capitula surrounded by involucral bracts. The name " Asteraceae " comes from Aster, the most prominent generum in the family, that derives from the Greek ἀστήρ meaning star, and is connected with its inflorescence star form.

The alternative name for the family, Umbelliferae, derives from the inflorescence being generally in the form of a compound umbel.

Their name derives from the Spanish el lagarto, which means " the lizard ".

From Thespis ' name derives the word thespian.

The League's modern name derives from its official meeting place, the island of Delos, where congresses were held in the temple and where the treasury stood until, in a symbolic gesture, Pericles moved it to Athens in 454 BC.

The actinide series derives its name from the group 3 element actinium.

The name " ablative " derives from the Latin ablatus, the ( irregular ) perfect passive participle of auferre " to carry away ".

Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born on and ruled the island.

The name derives from a Brythonic word Gobannia meaning " river of the blacksmiths ", and relates to the town's pre-Roman importance in iron smelting.

Plant potash lent the name to the element potassium, which was first derived from caustic potash, and also gave potassium its chemical symbol K ( cf German Kalium ), which ultimately derives from alkali.

The city grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baça, from which it derives its name.

White suggests that the creature derives from sightings of the worm lizards of the same name.

Some Swedish historians believe the name derives from the cripple secondary god Balder of Nordic mythology.

The name Schwarzwald ( German for " Black Forest ") derives from the Romans who referred to the thickly forested mountains there as Silva Nigra ( Latin for " Black Forest ") because the dense growth of conifers in the forest blocked out most of the light inside the forest.

The name of the group, Boogie Down, derives from a nickname for the South Bronx section of The Bronx, one of the five boroughs of New York City.

The name probably derives from the Old English bēd, or prayer ; if Bede was given the name at his birth, then his family had probably always planned for him to enter the clergy.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, Jeremiah, who lived in Jerusalem in the late 7th and early 6th centuries BC during the time of king Josiah and the fall of the Kingdom of Judah to the Babylonians, and who subsequently went into exile in Egypt.

It derives its name from, and records the visions of, the 6th century BC priest and prophet Ezekiel.