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Talinum fruticosum is a herbaceous perennial plant that is native to Mexico, the Caribbean, West Africa, Central America, and much of South America.Common names include Ceylon spinach, [2] waterleaf, cariru, Gbure, Surinam purslane, Philippine spinach, Florida spinach, potherb fameflower, Lagos bologi, sweetheart, and Kutu bataw in Ghana from the Akan language [1] It is widely grown in ...
Lablab purpureus, illustration from the Japanese agricultural encyclopedia Seikei Zusetsu (1804). Lablab purpureus is a species of bean in the family Fabaceae.It is native to sub-Saharan Africa and it is cultivated throughout the tropics for food.
The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
Living organisms are known by scientific names. These binomial names can vary greatly in length, and some of them can become very long depending on the meanings they try to convey. This list of longest species names lists the longest scientific binomials. [1] Species in this list are grouped by length of their name.
It includes taxon names derived from any language or even arbitrarily derived, [3] and consequently there is no single consistent pronunciation system. When speakers of different languages use Botanical Latin in speech, they use pronunciations influenced by their own languages, or, notably in French, there may be variant spellings based on the ...
Bataw (Egyptian Arabic: بتاو) is a leavened flatbread from Egypt. It is widely consumed in the Egyptian countryside. It is widely consumed in the Egyptian countryside. The main ingredients of the bread vary depending on the region.
The system of nomenclature in which the scientific name of a species (and not of a taxon at any other rank) is a combination of two names, the first name being the generic name. The second name is referred to botanically as the specific epithet. Note that the two names together (not just the second name) constitute the species name. bipinnate
The stated etymology is that "The name eu, treated as a noun in apposition, is based on the Greek prefix meaning 'true' or 'good', a reference to the fact that the species is valid”; [67] however, it is believed that in this case he again was engaging in some jocular wordplay (its pronunciation would be similar to "piss on you").