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  2. Digitaria abyssinica - Wikipedia

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    Digitaria abyssinica, the East African couchgrass, is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. [2] It is native to Sub‑Saharan Africa (except West Africa), Madagascar, many of the Indian Ocean islands, the Arabian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, Peninsular Malaysia, Vietnam, New Guinea, and Queensland in Australia, and it has been introduced to scattered locations in Central America and ...

  3. Abyssinia - Wikipedia

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    Abyssinia (/ æ b ɪ ˈ s ɪ n i ə /; [1] also known as Abyssinie, Abissinia, Habessinien, or Al-Habash) was an ancient region in the Horn of Africa situated in the northern highlands of modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea. [2]

  4. Dorycnopsis - Wikipedia

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    Dorycnopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae. [1] It belongs to the subfamily Faboideae.It includes two species of subshrubs, one native to southwestern Europe and Morocco, and the other native to the Horn of Africa and Yemen.

  5. Ethiopian Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Ethiopian Empire, [a] historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, [b] was a sovereign state [16] that encompassed the present-day territories of Ethiopia and Eritrea.

  6. Lippia abyssinica - Wikipedia

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    Lippia abyssinica, or koseret (Amharic: ኮሰረት, romanized: koserēt), is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. It is endemic to Ethiopia but cultivated throughout tropical African countries. [2] [3] [4] The specific epithet abyssinica derives from Latin and means 'of or from Ethiopia '. [5] Herbarium specimen

  7. Ethio-Semitic languages - Wikipedia

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    Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic, Ethiopic or Abyssinian [2]) is a family of languages spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Sudan. [1] They form the western branch of the South Semitic languages, itself a sub-branch of Semitic, part of the Afroasiatic language family.

  8. Crambe - Wikipedia

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    Crambe hispanica subsp. abyssinica, formerly known as Crambe abyssinica, is grown for the oil from the seeds that has characteristics similar to whale oil. The word "crambe" derives, via the Latin crambe , from the Greek κράμβη , a kind of cabbage.

  9. Pseudoalcippe - Wikipedia

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    African hill babbler (Pseudoalcippe abyssinica) Rwenzori hill babbler (Pseudoalcippe atriceps) These two species were previously considered as members of the family Timaliidae (Old World babblers) but molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that they are closely related to species belonging to the genus Sylvia in the family Sylviidae.