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An open list of 259 words by hernesheir.

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Scientific names provide a special class of reduplicative words (tautonyms). This is a list of scientific names of organisms whose genus and species (and subspecies) names are identical, such as Bison bison and the fish Lota lota. I follow nomenclatural convention by capitalizing the genus name. Species and subspecies epithets appear in lower case.

Some organisms have a common name that is iterative: cuscus, hihi, brubru, boubou, motmot, bulbul, piopio, caracara, pipipi, tsetse etc. These I don't list here, but may do so in a separate list.

My list Hyphenated Repeats contains names of many organisms that are hyphenated reduplicative words.

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