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  2. List of fish common names - Wikipedia

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    Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.

  3. List of plant genus names with etymologies (A–C) - Wikipedia

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    Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] Many of these plants are listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners .

  4. List of plant family names with etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Bu: listed in Lotte Burkhardt's Index of Eponymic Plant Names [5] CS: listed in both Allen Coombes's The A to Z of Plant Names and William T. Stearn's Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners [6] Gl: listed in David Gledhill's The Names of Plants [7] Qu: listed in Umberto Quattrocchi's four-volume CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names [8 ...

  5. List of tautonyms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words (the generic name and the specific name have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ (though differences as small as one letter are permitted, as in cumin, Cuminum cyminum).

  6. List of plants by common name - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of plants organized by their common names. However, the common names of plants often vary from region to region, which is why most plant encyclopedias refer to plants using their scientific names , in other words using binomials or "Latin" names.

  7. Lists of plants - Wikipedia

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    List of plants by common name; List of plant family names with etymologies; List of plants known as arugula; List of plants known as breadfruit; List of plants known as bottlebrush; List of plants known as buckthorn; List of plants known as cedar; List of plants known as chickweed; List of plants known as compass plant; List of plants known as ...

  8. List of descriptive plant species epithets (A–H) - Wikipedia

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    Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners .

  9. List of descriptive plant species epithets (I–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. [1] These scientific names have been catalogued in a variety of works, including Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners.