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Sunday
Oct142012

Sounds Greek to Me

DateSunday, October 14, 2012 at 7:13PM |

Disticha.

Sounds Greek, right?  That is because it IS Greek. 

I learned today that not all scientific names are Latin or Latinized.  Some are Greek, like this one.  I wonder if there are other scientific names out there that were derived from other languages aside from Greek or Latin.

 

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