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    inval.; a rejected name is a nomen rejiciendum or nom. rej.; a later homonym of a validly published name is a nomen illegitimum or nom. illeg.; for...
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    jamaicensis (Drury, 1773) (originally in Vespa) is apparently a senior secondary homonym of Sphex jamaicensis Fabricius, 1775 (though these two have apparently...
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    whether a name is validly published (article 38.4) and on whether it is a homonym (article 53.5). The database can be queried online. The procedure starts...
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    bhüt /bʱʊt/ , meaning 'Bhutanese', was mistakenly confused for a near-homonym bhut /bʱut/ meaning 'ghost'. In Assam, the pepper is also known as bih...
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    Indonesia, and is the most active volcano in Sumatra. Like that of its quasi-homonym on Java, its name means "Mountain of Fire". Its elevation is 2,885 metres...
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  • Championships. The first and most common form presented is wordplay using homonyms that deliberately exploits ambiguity between similar-sounding words for...
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    Pun (section Homonymic)
    Walter Redfern summarized this type with his statement, "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms." For example, in George Carlin's phrase "atheism is a non-prophet...
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    S00461. Smithsonian NMAH. 2000. TI number: S00463. Smithsonian NMAH. 2000. TI number: S00467. Smithsonian NMAH. 2000. TI number: S00462. Smithsonian NMAH...
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    business and caterer The Sioux Chef. The Washington Post called it "a homonym to another... culinary concept", the sous-chef. In 2015, he and partner...
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    & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. "Arkansas Yard & Garden Resources...
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  • species, or uninomial for other ranks). The name must be unique (i.e. not a homonym). The description must be based on at least one name-bearing type specimen...
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    1937 Conus textile var. ponderosa Dautzenberg, 1932 (invalid: junior homonym of Conus quercinus var. ponderosa G.B. Sowerby, 1858) Conus textilinus...
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    distinction between [zɯ] and [dzɯ] (a phonemic merger), so the two words are homonyms for them. See, however, Zhang, Y., Kong, W. N., & Chai, X. Q. (2018). USDA...
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    considered a food of good luck in both Laos and Thailand because it has homonyms that mean 'lucky' in both languages, derived from लाभ in Sanskrit. Laab...
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    Cryptogemma aethiopica Shell of Cryptogemma aethiopica (holotype at Smithsonian Institution) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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    acceptable under the ICZN, but illegitimate under the ICNafp, as it is a later homonym of an orchid genus, so that the synonym Dinematomonas must be used instead...
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    alexandrinus Shell and protoconch of Conus alexandrinus (lectotype at the Smithsonian Institution) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia...
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    name for the river Tigris. However, today, the names are thought to be homonyms, and the connection between the tiger and the river is doubted. In 1758...
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    Clio Clio recurva (specimen at the Smithsonian Institution) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Gastropoda...
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    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
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    & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192. Carnevali, G., J. L. Tapia-Muñoz...
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    known as Polyporus suberosus), and so Bulliard's name was an illegitimate homonym. In 1821, Elias Magnus Fries published the species as Polyporus nidulans...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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    Code of Zoological Nomenclature published in 1999 the two names are not homonyms (and if they were Lanius melanocephalos would have priority as it was applied...
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    Journal of Botany. 88 (6). P.O. Box 28, Edgewater, Maryland 21037 USA: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center: 1071–9. doi:10.2307/2657090. JSTOR 2657090...
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    (1992). Chronological Taxonomy of Conus, 1758–1840. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 9781560980940. OCLC 24009184. Media related to...
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    Allium stenodon Ohwi, J. (1984). Flora of Japan (in English): 1-1067. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Kobayashi, S. & Ono, M. (1987). A Revised...
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    "Scientists Reintroduce 5,000 Snails to French Polynesian Islands". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-27. Elizabeth Claire Alberts (28 April 2023)...
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  • single rather large tooth (sometimes two). Geophila brevicornis is a junior homonym of G. brevicornis C.L. Koch, 1837 (now Stenotaenia linearis). G. brevicornis...
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    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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