The scientific name of the aardvark comes from Greek ορυκτερόπους ( orykterópous ) meaning " digging footed " and afer: from Africa.

Although the 1987 decision settled the question of the scientific name of the genus, the common name " amaryllis " continues to be used differently.

* The Saguaro cactus's scientific name, Carnegiea gigantea, is named after him.

Its scientific name is Musa textilis.

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 scientific name Tragelaphus eurycerus is acquired from Greek words: " Tragelaphus " is derived from the Greek words " trago " ( a he-goat ), and " elaphos " ( a deer ), in combination referring to " an antelope ".

It is a popular aquarium fish, frequently sold under the trade name zebra danio, and is an important vertebrate model organism in scientific research.

The subgenus Rhinella is increasingly considered to constitute a distinct genus of its own, thus changing the scientific name of the cane toad.

The common name " marine toad " and the scientific name Bufo marinus suggest a link to marine life, but the adult cane toad is entirely terrestrial, only venturing to fresh water to breed.

Its scientific name, Canis latrans, means " barking dog " in Latin.

The scientific name, both hydrochoerus and hydrochaeris, comes from Greek ὕδωρ ( hydor

The scientific name means " finger-like " and refers to the ease with which a flower of Digitalis purpurea can be fitted over a human fingertip.

It wasn ’ t until the late 1800s, however, that a young German philosopher by the name of Herman Ebbinghaus developed the first scientific approach to studying memory.

The scientific name Fringillidae comes from the Latin word fringilla for the Chaffinch ( Fringilla coelebs ) – a member of that last subfamily – which is common in Europe.

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Because Anghiera's literary work was translated into English and French in a short period of time, the name " Hispaniola " is the most frequently used term in English-speaking countries for the island in scientific and cartographic works.

The yew was associated with the alphabet and the scientific name for yew today, taxus, was probably derived from the Greek word for yew, toxos, which is hauntingly similar to toxon, their word for bow and toxicon, their word for poison.

The international community has settled on karst, the German name for Kras, a region in Slovenia partially extending into Italy, where it is called " Carso " and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made.

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The scientific name of the koala's genus, Phascolarctos, is derived from Greek phaskolos " pouch " and arktos " bear ".

However, evidence of hybrids between polar bears and brown bears, and of the recent evolutionary divergence of the two species, does not support the establishment of this separate genus, and the accepted scientific name is now therefore Ursus maritimus, as Phipps originally proposed.

It has a brown colour with green eyes and clear wings and also a yellow triangular mark on the second abdominal segment which gave rise to its scientific name.

Both the name " cave " and the scientific name spelaeus derive from the fact that fossils of this species were mostly found in caves, indicating this species spent more time in caves than the brown bear, which only uses caves for hibernation.

This species has a light brown coloration with a pattern of darker brown spots ( the last part of its scientific name, punctatus, means " spotted ").

The bill is black above and brown below, and is very broad and flat, hence the English and scientific names " spadebill " and Platyrinchus.

A laboratory rat is a rat of the species Rattus norvegicus ( brown rat ) which is bred and kept for scientific research.

The acorns tend to be ellipsoid ( ellipse-shaped, from which its scientific name derives ), though they tend to be highly variable and range to globose, 6-11 mm long and 10-19 mm broad, a third to a half covered in a deep cup, green maturing pale brown about 18 months after pollination ; the kernel is very bitter.

Their scientific name means " maritime bear ", and derives from this fact.

He chose the scientific name Ursus maritimus, the Latin for ' maritime bear ', due to the animal's native habitat.

John Aubrey was one of the first to examine the site with a scientific eye in 1666, and recorded in his plan of the monument the pits that now bear his name.

A genus in one kingdom is allowed to bear a scientific name that is in use as a generic name ( or the name of a taxon in another rank ) in a kingdom that is governed by a different nomenclature code.

Upon both of them entering and tying for first place in a scientific contest at the University of Paris, Johann, unable to bear the " shame " of being compared as Daniel's equal, banned Daniel from his house.

Books, journals, and treatises about a subject also often bear the name of this subject ( e. g. the scientific journal Ecology ).

In a series of such lectures at the Royal Institution, Constable proposed a threefold thesis: firstly, landscape painting is scientific as well as poetic ; secondly, the imagination cannot alone produce art to bear comparison with reality ; and thirdly, no great painter was ever self-taught.

Both the lichen and the fungus partner bear the same scientific name, and the lichens are being integrated into the classification schemes for fungi.

If two species of Merlins are recognized, the Old World birds would thus bear the scientific name F. aesalon.

Wherever he moved he was the benefactor ... How little this man suspects, with his sympathy for men and his respect for lettered and scientific people, that he is not likely, in any company, to meet a man superior to himself ," and " I think this is a good country that can bear such a creature as he.

He had specially prepared himself, as he thought, for teaching imaginative men, and political men, and legal men, and scientific men who bear the world in hand ; and he did not attempt to win their attention to abstract and worn-out theological arguments, but discussed the opinions, the poetry, the politics, the manners and customs of the time, and this not with philosophical comprehensiveness, not in terms of warm eulogy or measured blame, but of severe satire varied by fierce denunciation, and with a specific minuteness which was concerned primarily with individuals.

Several other species bear his name in their scientific names, including the Takahe, Porphyrio hochstetteri, and Powelliphanta hochstetteri, a species ( with five subspecies ) of New Zealand's giant carnivorous land snails.

The seventieth anniversary of his birthday was the occasion for his friends and disciples to bear testimony to the universal esteem in which he was held among them ; and a volume of scientific essays was published in his honor (" Jubelschrift zum 70.

By bringing detailed scientific and other types of expertise to bear on policy, the rulemaking process has been the means by which some of the most far-reaching government regulations of the 20th century have been created.

In 1980 Satprem wrote Le Mental des Cellules ( The Mind of the Cells ), a synopsis and introduction of the whole Agenda, with many fascinating and important excerpts, and written with great passion, even if his frequent Darwinian metaphors hardly bear resemblance to the actual scientific theory of Darwinism.

As both the common and scientific names suggest, the leaves bear some similarity to those of a peach or an almond ( Latin, amygdalus ).

Beruas ' name is derived from mangosteen-like tree that bear fruits, known as Pokok Bruas in local Malay, Seashore mangosteen or by its scientific name, Garcinia hombroniana.

Discussing the book, Professor of Zoology, Leslie Dunn wrote, " How can man of 1960, burdened with the knowledge of the world external to him, and with the consciousness that scientific knowledge is attained through continually interfering with nature, ' bear his part ' and gain the hope and confidence to live in the new world to which natural science has given birth?

As its scientific name suggests, and unlike the related Monotropa hypopitys ( but like the closely related Monotropastrum humile ), the stems bear only a single flower, 10 – 15 mm long with 3-8 petals.

Many of his nomenclatures thus bear names of places in eastern India as part of their specific scientific name-like andamanensis ( from the Andaman Islands ), bengalensis ( from the region of Bengal, and dhakuriensis ( from the neighbourhood of Dhakuria, in Kolkata, often based on the region of discovery or distribution.