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Galium aparine, with common names including cleavers, clivers, catchweed, robin-run-the-hedge, goosegrass, and sticky willy, is an annual, herbaceous plant of the family Rubiaceae. Names [ edit ]
Abies ← [a] Abronia ← Acacia ← Acanthus ← Actinidia ← Actinotus ← Aerangis ← Aeranthes ← Aerides ← Aeschynanthus ← Agalmyla ← Agastache ← Agrostemma ← Aichryson ← Alloplectus ← Alopecurus ← Alphitonia ← Ammocharis ← Ammophila ← Androstephium ← Anemone ← Angophora ← Antirrhinum ← Aphyllanthes ← Archontophoenix ← Arctostaphylos ← Ardisia ← ...
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 ...
Galium aparine (cleavers), an annual plant found in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America; Parietaria judaica (spreading pellitory), a perennial plant found in Europe, central and western Asia and northern Africa; Drymaria cordata, a species of the genus Drymaria
Galium verrucosum, common name warty bedstraw (US) or southern cleavers (UK), is a species of plants in the Rubiaceae. The epithet "verrucosum" means "warty" in reference to the numerous bumps on the mature fruit. It is native to the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal and Morocco to Turkey and Palestine.
A cleaver is a large knife that varies in its shape but usually resembles a rectangular-bladed hatchet. It is largely used as a kitchen or butcher knife and is mostly intended for splitting up large pieces of soft bones and slashing through thick pieces of meat.
Sadly, the other members of the original Cleaver clan have since passed on. Hugh Beaumont, who played family patriarch Ward Cleaver, died in 1982, the year before Still the Beaver premiered ...
The name is derived from medieval Latin word aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis, meaning 'circle equalizing day and night', from the Latin word aequare meaning 'make equal'. equilateral: æquilateral: aequilateral (BrE - obsolete) from Latin "aequus" equinox: æquinox: aequinox (BrE - obsolete) from Latin "aequi + nocta ...