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List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous languages of the Americas information


This list includes organisms whose common or scientific names are drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas. When the common name of the organism in English derives from an indigenous language of the Americas, it is given first.

In biological nomenclature, organisms receive scientific names, which are formally in Latin, but may be drawn from any language and many have incorporated words from indigenous language of the Americas. These scientific names are generally formally published in peer-reviewed journal articles or larger monographs along with descriptions of the named taxa and ways to distinguish them from other taxa.

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List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous languages of the Americas

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This list includes organisms whose common or scientific names are drawn from indigenous languages of the Americas. When the common name of the organism in...

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List of organisms named after works of fiction

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is a list of real organisms with scientific names chosen to reference works of fiction. List of unusual biological names List of organisms named after...

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Nomenclature

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are derived from the names of mythological characters (Venus, Neptune), and many personal names are derived from place-names, names of nations and the like...

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Language

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all the way to Oceania. It includes such languages as Malagasy, Māori, Samoan, and many of the indigenous languages of Indonesia and Taiwan. The Austronesian...

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Trinidad and Tobago

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Joseph claimed that Trinidad's Indigenous name was Cairi or "Land of the Humming Bird", derived from the Arawak name for hummingbird, ierèttê or yerettê...

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Quebec

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Montreal and the Pontiac. Three families of Indigenous languages encompassing eleven languages exist in Quebec: the Algonquian language family (Abenaki...

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Pharmacognosy

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disease; marine pharmacognosy: the study of chemicals derived from marine organisms. All plants produce chemical compounds as part of their normal metabolic activities...

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Columbian exchange

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reduction in the number of Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the 15th century onwards, most severely in the Caribbean. The cultures of both hemispheres...

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British Columbia

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Nations. One of the main Indigenous languages in BC is Kwakʼwala, the language of the Kwakwakaʼwakw First Nations. BC's economy is diverse, with service-producing...

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Regional forms of shamanism

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other indigenous names) were shamans of the various ethnic groups of the pre-colonial Philippine islands. These shamans specialized in harnessing the unlimited...

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Climate change and Indigenous peoples

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on Indigenous languages in the Amazon rainforest basin. Approximately 20% of global endangered languages are found in the region and the loss of ancestral...

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List of short species names

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Living organisms are known by scientific names. These binomial names can vary greatly in length, and some can be very short; genus or species names composed...

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Botany

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included the study of fungi and algae by mycologists and phycologists respectively, with the study of these three groups of organisms remaining within the sphere...

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Portuguese language

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Some Germanic words from that period are part of the Portuguese lexicon, together with place names, surnames, and first names. With the Umayyad conquest...

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California

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diverse areas in the world, with more than 70 indigenous languages derived from 64 root languages in six language families. A survey conducted between 2007...

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Ichthyology

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of fish had been described as of October 2016, with approximately 250 new species described each year.[citation needed] The word is derived from the Greek...

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Datura stramonium

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four chambers, each with dozens of small, black seeds. The genus name is derived from the plant's Hindi name, dhatūra, ultimately from Sanskrit dhattūra...

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Landrace

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their names, but do not meet widely used definitions of landraces. For example, the British Landrace pig is a standardized breed, derived from earlier...

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Equisetum

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Nancy J. (2014). "Appendix 2B. Names of Native Plant Species in Indigenous Languages of Northwestern North America". Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge...

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Walrus

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a "keystone species" in the Arctic marine regions. The walrus has played a prominent role in the cultures of many indigenous Arctic peoples, who have...

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Patagonia

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Review of Spanish Philology report. There are various placenames in the Chiloé Archipelago with Chono etymologies despite the main indigenous language of the...

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Fungus

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of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are...

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National symbols of India

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be a Union of States. "India, that is Bharat: A short history of the nation's names, from the Rig Veda to the Constitution of India". The Indian Express...

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Pygmy peoples

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Pygmaeus), derived from πυγμή – meaning a short forearm cubit, or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the wrist to the elbow or knuckles...

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Haplogroup

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haplotype is a group of alleles in an organism that are inherited together from a single parent, and a haplogroup (haploid from the Greek: ἁπλοῦς, haploûs...

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Central Asia

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referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan" (meaning "land of") in both respective native languages and most other...

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