The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names

by John Wright

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Latin names--frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel--have been annoying the layman since they first became formalized as scientific terms in the eighteenth century. Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus aquaticus , or the Oxford Ragwort been called Senecio squalidus --'dirty old man'? What were naturalists thinking when they called a beetle Agra katewinsletae , a genus...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1408816989

ISBN13:9781408816981

Release Date:January 2015

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.2" x 7.9"

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Foreign Language Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses Foreign Language Fiction Foreign Language Learning Foreign Language Study Foreign Language Study & Reference Foreign Languages Language Arts Nature

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