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This list includes organisms whose common or scientific names are drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas. When the common name of the organism in...

is a list of real organisms with scientific names chosen to reference works of fiction. List of unusual biological names List of organisms named after...

nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g., species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity...

Joseph claimed that Trinidad's Indigenous name was Cairi or "Land of the Humming Bird", derived from the Arawak name for hummingbird, ierèttê or yerettê...

are derived from the names of mythological characters (Venus, Neptune), and many personal names are derived from place-names, names of nations and the like...

nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g., species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity...

nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person. A taxon (e.g. species or genus; plural: taxa) named in honor of another entity...

places. It does not include organisms named for fictional entities (which can be found in the List of organisms named after works of fiction), for biologists...

all the way to Oceania. It includes such languages as Malagasy, Māori, Samoan, and many of the indigenous languages of Indonesia and Taiwan. The Austronesian...

other indigenous names) were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial Philippine islands. These shamans specialized in harnessing the unlimited...

Montreal and the Pontiac. Three families of Indigenous languages encompassing eleven languages exist in Quebec: the Algonquian language family (Abenaki...

reduction in the number of Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the 15th century onwards, most severely in the Caribbean. The cultures of both hemispheres...

diverse areas in the world, with more than 70 indigenous languages derived from 64 root languages in six language families. A survey conducted between 2007...

Nations. One of the main Indigenous languages in BC is Kwakʼwala, the language of the Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations. BC's economy is diverse, with service-producing...

four chambers, each with dozens of small, black seeds. The genus name is derived from the plant's Hindi name, dhatūra, ultimately from Sanskrit dhattūra...

Some Germanic words from that period are part of the Portuguese lexicon, together with place names, surnames, and first names. With the Umayyad conquest...

their names, but do not meet widely used definitions of landraces. For example, the British Landrace pig is a standardized breed, derived from earlier...

included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere...

disease; marine pharmacognosy: the study of chemicals derived from marine organisms. All plants produce chemical compounds as part of their normal metabolic activities...

horse's tail. Similarly, the scientific name Equisetum is derived from the Latin equus ('horse') + seta ('bristle'). Other names include candock for branching...