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    fleets of ships from Tarshish. Sri Lanka's port of Galle was the renowned global trading port of Tarshish. Sri Lanka was the ancient trade hub of the Indian...
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  • Thumbnail for Falconeria
    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Pimpla rufipes
    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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    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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    to Bolivia; naturalized in the West Indies as well as in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Andaman & Nicobar Couroupita nicaraguarensis – Bala de cañón, coco de...
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    Guinea, Solomon Islands, Bismarck Archipelago Pothos hookeri Schott - Sri Lanka Pothos inaequilaterus (C.Presl) Engl. - Philippines Pothos insignis Engl...
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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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    Rob. - southwestern India Cyanthillium hookerianum (Arn.) H.Rob. - Sri Lanka Cyanthillium patulum (Dryand. ex Dryand.) H.Rob. - tropical Asia, Madagascar...
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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 species...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Dendrobium anosmum
    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    (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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  • same, its English spelling and pronunciation is unchanged, making it a homonym, which can be interpreted to refer to 'victorious Rama'. In the Hindu philosophy...
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  • Thumbnail for Murex trapa
    widespread from Madagascar and Mascarene Islands, South-Eastern India, Sri Lanka and the Andaman Sea to southern Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan and Southern...
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    widespread plant native to much of Southeast Asia as well as India, Sri Lanka, and New Guinea. Known as බෙරු (beru) in Sinhala. Barstow, M. (2021). "Agrostistachys...
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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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    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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  • 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 Itis...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Oligodon taeniolatus
    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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  • Thumbnail for Red-rimmed melania
    1883 junior subjective synonym Melania ornata von dem Busch, 1842 junior homonym (invalid, not Michaud, 1828) Melania pellicens Tapparone Canefri, 1883...
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    Pax & K.Hoffm. – Colombia, Venezuela, 3 Guianas, NW Brazil member of homonymic genus, synonym of Pouteria Chaetocarpus pouteria J.F.Gmel, synonym of...
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  • mostly by security experts. Originally named BackTrack (named after the homonym class of backtracking algorithms), it is developed by Offensive Security...
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  • Thumbnail for Hoplobatrachus crassus
    Hoplobatrachus crassus (category Frogs of Sri Lanka)
    found widely distributed on the plains of India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Its range may extend to the adjacent Bhutan and Myanmar. This species has...
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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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