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Some writers believe that onycha was Unguis odoratus, the fingernail-like operculum, or trap door, of certain sea snails, such as Strombus lentiginosus, Murex anguliferus, and Onyx marinus. It may be the operculum of a snail-like mollusk found in the Red Sea. [4] This operculum is the trap door of a shell, called by the Latins Conchylium.
It was not referred to as “onycha” until the book of Exodus was rewritten in Greek— a very long time after the Babylonian exile. They may have replaced the word "shecheleth" with the word “onycha” because of the fingernail-like markings on the flower petals of the cistus or the resemblance of the black resin with the black onyx stone.
Hierochloe odorata or Anthoxanthum nitens [1] (commonly known as sweet grass, manna grass, Mary's grass or vanilla grass, and as holy grass in the UK, [3] bison grass e.g. by Polish vodka producers [4]) is an aromatic herb native to northern Eurasia and North America. It is considered sacred by many Indigenous peoples in Canada and the United ...
Theclinesthes onycha, the cycad blue [1] is a small butterfly found in Eastern Australia, coastal and inland from Cape York Peninsula to the southern-most part of New South Wales. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Gallery
The spore mass typically smells of carrion or dung, and attracts flies, beetles and other insects to help disperse the spores. Although there is great diversity in body structure shape among the various genera , all species in the Phallaceae begin their development as oval or round structures known as "eggs".
Arum palaestinum is a species of flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Arum and the family Araceae.It is also known as black calla, Solomon's lily, priest's hood, noo'ah loof and kardi.
The common watersnake mates from April through June. It is ovoviviparous (live-bearing), which means it does not lay eggs like many other snakes. Instead, the mother carries the eggs inside her body and gives birth to free-living young, each one 19–23 cm (7 + 1 ⁄ 2 –9 in) long. [25]
The species was first described scientifically by American mycologist Howard James Banker in 1913. [2] Italian Pier Andrea Saccardo placed the species in the genus Hydnum in 1925, [3] while Walter Henry Snell and Esther Amelia Dick placed it in Calodon in 1956; [4] Hydnum peckii (Banker) Sacc. and Calodon peckii Snell & E.A. Dick are synonyms of Hydnellum peckii.