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  2. List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family - Wikipedia

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    Scientific name Common name Family Conservation status Hardwoods; Aceraceae: maple family; Acer: maples; Acer amplum: broad maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer argutum: deep-veined maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer floridanum: Florida maple; southern sugar maple Aceraceae (maple family) Acer barbinerve: bearded maple Aceraceae (maple family ...

  3. Blackberry - Wikipedia

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    The usually black fruit is not a berry in the botanical sense, as it is termed botanically as an aggregate fruit, composed of small drupelets. It is a widespread and well-known group of over 375 species, many of which are closely related apomictic microspecies native throughout Europe, northwestern Africa, temperate western and central Asia and ...

  4. List of organisms named after famous people (born 1950 ...

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    The scientific name of the spangled darter, endemic to rivers of Tennessee, honors Obama for "his environmental leadership and commitment during challenging economic times in the areas of clean energy, energy efficiency, environmental protection and humanitarian efforts globally, and especially for the people of the United States." [157] [158]

  5. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    The name Tieta honours the main character from the homonymous novel Tieta do Agreste by the famous author Jorge Amado, who was born in Bahia and lived in Salvador City [the type locality]. The name Antonieta further means 'priceless', alluding to the value of Tietasaura derbyiana sp. nov. as the first nominal ornithischian species from Brazil ...

  6. List of proper names of exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    Native name of Bhutan: HD 73534 (Gakyid) 1.15 1800 3.15 radial vel. 2009 316.3 1.29 4952 2019 NameExoWorlds Bhutan Yvaga "paradise" in the Guarani language: HD 63765 (Tapecue) 0.64 358 0.949 radial vel. 2009 106 0.865 5432 2019 NameExoWorlds Bolivia Naron: Ancient Celtic name for the Neretva river in the Balkans HD 206610 (Bosona) 2.2 610 1.68 ...

  7. Video game - Wikipedia

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    A video game [a] or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality ...

  8. Landing craft tank - Wikipedia

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    A Crusader Mk I cruiser tank driving off the tank landing craft TLC-124 during tests of a portable concrete roadway 26 April 1942. The Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) (or tank landing craft, TLC) [1] [2] was an amphibious assault craft for landing tanks on beachheads.

  9. List of Dutch inventions and innovations - Wikipedia

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    St. Lidwina of Schiedam's fall when she was ice skating, wood drawing from the 1498 edition of John Brugman's Vita of Lidwina. The Dutch played a significant role in the history of ice skating (including speed skating and figure skating). The first feature of ice skating in a work of art was made in the 15th century.