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  2. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    The common name is from the Tupi name of the animal, eîrara, via Spanish or Portuguese, while the generic name is from the (related) Guarani name of the animal, eira. [241] [242] Tehuelchesaurus † sauropod: Named in honor of the Tehuelche people: Tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) bean: Uncertain

  3. Apis mellifera iberiensis - Wikipedia

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    The Iberian Peninsula is an area of hybridization between the north of Africa and Europe, the influence of Apis mellifera mellifera is present in bees localized in the northern, and the influence of Apis mellifera intermissa is more present in the south, in the Apis mellifera iberiensis.

  4. List of place names of Spanish origin in the United States

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    Panama, California (formerly named Rio Bravo after the Spanish name for the Kern River, Rio Bravo de San Felipe), an unincorporated community in Kern County, California; Pedro, Ohio, an unincorporated community in central Elizabeth Township, Lawrence County, Ohio; Pena, Texas, a census-designated place in Starr County, Texas (pain)

  5. List of Mexican state name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The state is named after its capital city, Querétaro City. Quintana Roo: Spanish: Named after Andrés Quintana Roo, a hero from the War of Independence. San Luis Potosí: Spanish: Named after Louis IX, and the mines of Potosí in Bolivia. Sinaloa: Mayo: sinalobola: Origin of name is disputed. May mean "round pitahaya (cacti)" or "cut corn" [8 ...

  6. Naming of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Bristol antiquarian Alfred Hudd suggested in 1908 that the name was derived from the surname "Amerike" or "ap Meryk" and was used on early British maps that have since been lost. Richard ap Meryk, anglicised to Richard Amerike was a wealthy Anglo-Welsh merchant, royal customs officer and sheriff of Bristol. [25]

  7. Deformed wing virus - Wikipedia

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    It is named after what is usually the most obvious deformity it induces in the development of a honeybee pupa, which is shrunken and deformed wings, but other developmental deformities are often present. There are three known variants of Deformed Wing Virus, DWV-A, DWV-B, and DWV-C, of which the first two are vectored by the Varroa Destructor mite.

  8. Hispanism - Wikipedia

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    Hispanism (sometimes referred to as Hispanic studies or Spanish studies) is the study of the literature and culture of the Spanish-speaking world, principally that of Spain and Hispanic America.

  9. Historiography of Colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    A 17th–century Dutch map of the Americas. The historiography of Spanish America in multiple languages is vast and has a long history. [1] [2] [3] It dates back to the early sixteenth century with multiple competing accounts of the conquest, Spaniards’ eighteenth-century attempts to discover how to reverse the decline of its empire, [4] and people of Spanish descent born in the Americas ...