The garden serves the purpose of providing genuine plant species used in indigenous systems of medicine, conserving and propagating endangered species, educating and demonstrating as well as functioning as a reference centre.

The compound " Native American " is generally capitalized to differentiate the reference to the indigenous peoples.

Saginaw is a Native American term, perhaps having reference to the Sauk tribe who lived at the mouth of the river.

Paint Creek and Paintsville were named in reference to drawings found on trees, believed to be drawn by Native Americans.

Peapack is believed to have been derived from " Peapackton ", a Lenape Native American term meaning " marriage of the waters ", a reference to the confluence of the Peapack Brook and Raritan River in the area.

It is believe by many that it is a Native American word meaning " Hole in the ground ", but it may instead mean " stinking water " or " bad water " in reference to the highly alkaline water in the nearby lake.

The word Monongalia is a Latinized version of the Native American word Monongahela, which means " falling banks ", in reference to the geological instability of the river's banks.

In 2005, the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ) ruled that Carthage, along with several other colleges, would be ineligible to host NCAA-sanctioned playoffs and tournaments because their nickname, " Redmen ", was perceived as an offensive reference to Native Americans.

It may be in reference to its appearance, as it often has a gray cloud, or lock of gray mist upon his head, or in tribute to a legendary Native American chief, Gray Lock.

Shasta can be a reference to a Native American tribe, and also various locations in Northern California.

A number of Native American languages like Northern Paiute stand in contrast to European notions of tense because they always use relative tense, which means time relative to a reference point that may not coincide with the time an utterance is made.

For instance the term “ Native VM ” is used ensure reference to the lowest level operating system, the one that actually maintains direct control of the hardware when multiple levels of virtualization occur.

Many of the songs on this album, notably " La Chica Banda " and " Labios Jaguar " makes reference of Native Americans and mestizos in Mexico.

This member of the Chinle forms prominent cliffs with thickness up to, and its name comes from a Native American word meaning " wolf's rump " ( a reference to the way this member erodes into gray, rounded hills ).

By 1990 half of the " reserves " had been sold to Pakeha settlers by the Native Trustee without reference to Maori.

However, a character in " Reaper Man " from Howondaland was " named after the first thing his mother saw after leaving the teepee ", a clear reference to popular stereotypes of Native American culture.

** " Run to the Hills ", shows Eddie fighting Satan with a Native American tomahawk, a reference to the song itself.

The estate's name was " Seven Oaks ," a reference to oak trees planted on the property that were thought to be part of a traditional Native American burial ground.

Mary Rowlandson uses the term Wigwam in reference to the dwelling places of the Native Americans that she stayed with while in their captivity during King Philip's War in 1675.

The novel also makes reference to the issue of Native American parental rights.

The earliest known written reference to Key deer comes from the writings of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, a Spanish sailor shipwrecked in the Florida Keys and captured by Native Americans in the 1550s.

The series features the adventures of Ompa-pa ( Oumpah-pah in French ) ( the name referring to a waltz ), a Native American of the Flatfeet tribe, and his friend, the French officer Hubert Brussels Sprout ( Hubert de la Pâte Feuilletée in French which translates as Hubert de Flaky Pastry ), whom Ompa-pa calls Two-scalp, a reference to his wig.

The marker's reference to the " first " Battle of the River Raisin took place on January 18, 1813, in which the American forces defeated the British and Native American alliance.

Historically it is particularly recognized for publishing in the following disciplines: history, literary criticism, Canadian studies, Native studies and reference works.

The pamphlet is a reference to Proposition 217, a proposition that allowed Native Americans to operate casinos in certain states.

With U.S. Coast Guard cooperation, the American Boat and Yacht Council was formed to develop recommended practices and standards for boats and their equipment with reference to safety.

His reference to ' discredited carcass ' or ' tattered remains ' of the president's leadership is an insult to the man who led our forces to victory in the greatest war in all history, to the man who was twice elected overwhelmingly by the American people as president of the United States, and who has been the symbol to the world of the peace-loving intentions of the free nations.

The two most common systems are the classification adopted by the website AmphibiaWeb, University of California ( Berkeley ) and the classification by herpetologist Darrel Frost and the American Museum of Natural History, available as the online reference database Amphibian Species of the World.

British and American English are the reference norms for English as spoken, written, and taught in the rest of the world.

In America a distinction is drawn between ballads that are versions of European, particularly British and Irish songs, and ' native American ballads ', developed without reference to earlier songs.

A point of reference for clinical engineers would be the catalogue published by the American Society for Hospital Engineering in the Hospital Engineering Reference Series called Maintenance Management for Medical Equipment.

This passage in King's speech is a direct reference to Amos, as translated in the American Standard Version of the BibleJoshua Heschel " The Prophets ".

Gerrit S. Miller still had in his 1924 edition of List of North American Recent Mammals in the section “ Genus Canis Linnaeas ,” the subordinate heading “ Subgenus Thos Oken ” and backed it up with a reference to Heller.

Also used in reference to the traditional " unit " of criminals under the supervision of a caporegime in the American Mafia.

" Shag " itself ( when used in reference to American social dances ) is a very broad term used to denote a number of swing dances that originated during the early part of the 20th century.

American avant-garde composer John Zorn released an album called Grand Guignol by Naked City in 1992, in a reference to " the darker side of our existence which has always been with us and always will be ".

His charts of the North American northwest coast were so extremely accurate that they served as the key reference for coastal navigation for generations.

* American Elements-Holmium American Elements ( also used as a reference )

Rabbi Bradley Artson, Dean of the Rabbinic School at American Jewish University claims to have studied every reference he could find to homosexual activity mentioned in ancient Greek and Latin writers.

* In 1940, actor Pat O ' Brien portrayed Rockne in the Warner Brothers film Knute Rockne, All American in which Rockne used the phrase " win one for the Gipper " in reference to the death bed request of George Gipp, played by Ronald Reagan.

The origin of the name, ratified by the American Chemical Society, is in reference to the nuclear-physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, of the University of California, who invented the cyclotron particle accelerator.

In the United States, those who staff library reference desks are usually required to have an accredited Masters degree in Library Science from the American Library Association.

The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.

* Glossary of Meteorology-From the American Meteorological Society, an excellent reference of nomenclature, equations, and concepts for the more advanced reader.

His 1828 American Dictionary contained the greatest number of Biblical definitions given in any reference volume.

Rand is not found in the comprehensive academic reference texts The Oxford Companion to Philosophy or The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, but is the subject of entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers.

Perhaps its most important and prominent usage in scientific literature was Nobel laureate Theodor W. Hänsch's reference in a 1979 Scientific American article on spectroscopy where he says that " the spectrum of the hydrogen atoms has proved to be the Rosetta stone of modern physics: once this pattern of lines had been deciphered much else could also be understood ".