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    Nian gao (category Sri Lankan desserts and sweets)
    to eat nian gao during this time of the year because nian gao (年糕) is a homonym for "higher year" or "grow every year" (年高), which means "a more prosperous...
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    created an illegitimate homonym, unacceptable under the rules of nomenclature. The only species name ever created in this homonymic genus was Falconeria...
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    meant a kind of cake made of unwinnowed corn (-lexicons); An unrelated homonym, compounded from ud "apart" + pala "flesh" means 'fleshless, emaciated'...
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    derived from Kala, which is mentioned quite differently in Sanskrit. The homonym kālá (time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated...
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  • Theridion ceylonicus (category Endemic fauna of Sri Lanka)
    ceylonicus, is a species of spider of the genus Theridion. It is endemic to Sri Lanka. Theridion annulipes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 List of Theridiidae...
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    south to Bolivia; naturalized in the West Indies as well as in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Andaman & Nicobar Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala de cañón, coco...
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    Jagannath (redirect from Sri Jagannath)
    the deity Jagannath as worshipped by Indrabhuti was just a coincidental homonym with the present Jagannath or referred to the same deity. The 10th century...
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    umbrellas were usually given as dowry, due to the "paper" (纸) and "child" (子) homonym in the language (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: chṳ́), symbolizing a blessing for the woman...
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    New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago Pothos hookeri Schott - Sri Lanka Pothos inaequilaterus (C.Presl) Engl. - Philippines Pothos insignis...
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    (DC.) H.Rob. - southwestern India Cyanthillium hookerianum (Arn.) H.Rob. - Sri Lanka Cyanthillium patulum (Dryand. ex Dryand.) H.Rob. - tropical Asia, Madagascar...
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    since the original name Ichneumon instigator Fabricius, 1793 is a junior homonym of Ichneumon instigator Rossius, 1790, which represents a pimpline species...
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    in 1931. Thus, the combination Ahaetulla pulverulenta indica would be a homonym to Ahaetulla prasina indica. To solve this, a new replacement name, A....
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    1852 with the name Pseudanthus. This turned out to be an illegitimate homonym, so it was renamed Nothosaerva in 1853. The Plant List, Nothosaerva brachiata...
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    because the older name given by Lindley is invalid given that it is a homonym of the pastor's orchid (Dendrobium macrophyllum), which was described earlier...
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  • Xylocopa ruficornis (category Insects of Sri Lanka)
    (Koptortosoma) ruficornis, is a species of carpenter bee. It is found in the Sri Lankan. Discoverlife Xylocopa ruficornis Animal-diversity Xylocopa ruficornis...
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    Coconut (section Sri Lanka)
    Amboinense by Georg Eberhard Rumphius where Rumphius said that coccus was a homonym of coccum and coccus from Greek κόκκος kokkos meaning "grain" or "berry"...
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    taeniolatus (Jerdon, 1853) and its long-ignored senior synonym and secondary homonym, Oligodon taeniolatus (Daudin, 1803). Hamadryad 27: 205–213. Boulenger...
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    (Platyhelminthes: Prolecithophora) with a nomenclature analysis of its avian senior homonym [sic]". Species Diversity. 10: 63–68. doi:10.12782/specdiv.10.63. Laumer...
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    signifies or implies the person's father to be distinguished from his homonyms. Opinion is divided on whether Jude the apostle was also Jude, brother...
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  • 2013, Carballo, Aquilar-Camacho, Knapp & Bell, decided that this was a homonym, a separate taxon from the original one described by Dendy, and gave the...
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    referred to as skar gang in Tibetan. Since the 1950s, China has issued the homonymic mimangxogngü skar in Tibet, which is a synonym of renminbi fen. Since...
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  • 4
    and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. In Slavic mythology, the god Svetovid has...
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    Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...
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  • prehistory between 1200 and 800 BC was a 'Dark Age'. The Hebrew term has a homonym, tarshish, occurring seven times and translated beryl in older English...
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  • Hoplonomia westwoodi (category Insects of Sri Lanka)
    https://www.academia.edu/7390502/AN_UPDATED_CHECKLIST_OF_BEES_OF_SRI_LANKA_WITH_NEW_RECORDS http://www.cea.lk/web/images/pdf/redlist2012.pdf http://www...
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    Aden and the United Arab Emirates; also off Pakistan, India, Bangladesh , Sri Lanka and the Philippines and Thailand; off Ethiopia and Eritrea. Bouchet...
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    romanized: Tutut) as traditional cuisine which is often boiled or grilled as satay. Sri-aroon, P.; Richter, K. (2012). "Pila ampullacea". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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    homonym and synonym of Conus virgatus Reeve, 1849 . The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 40 mm. This marine species occurs off India, Sri Lanka...
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  • species in the Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka. In 2013, Carballo, Aquilar-Camacho, Knapp & Bell, decided that this was a homonym, a separate taxon from the original...
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    Emperor's birthday. "Sugarcane" (Chinese: 甘蔗; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-chià) is a near homonym to "thank you" (Chinese: 感謝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-siā) in the Hokkien dialect...
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