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  • adjective Baker (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms having English names of the form "Baker's ..."

Etymologies

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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Baker.

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Examples

  • Aruba also has two snakes: the cascabel (Crotalus thurissus unicolor), an endangered subspecies of rattlesnake, which does not use its rattle; and the Aruba cat-eyed snake (Leptodira bakeri).

    Aruba-Curaçao-Bonaire cactus scrub 2008

  • It shares Wahnes's parotia (Parotia wahnesi) and the olive-streaked honeyeater (Ptiloprora guisei) with the mountains of the Huon Peninsula, but the fire-maned bowerbird (Sericulus bakeri) is found nowhere else on Earth but this ecoregion.

    Northern New Guinea montane rain forests 2008

  • There are also many endemic trees in these lowland forests, including: Camplyospermum dusenii, Deinbollia angustifolia, D. saligna, Hymenostegia bakeri, Medusandra richardsiana, and Soyauxia talbotii.

    Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests 2008

  • In southern California our yard came with tulipa bakeri, small but cute.

    Tulips « Fairegarden 2008

  • In Australia Acacia bakeri has been utilized in a limited way as cabinet timber.

    Chapter 8 1983

  • Utila Island iguana CR (Ctenosaura bakeri) - These rare black iguanas are from the small island of Utila, located near the north coast of Honduras.

    Dallas / Fort Worth news, weather, sports, traffic and video from cbs11tv.com 2010

  • (Ex-Londistani because he is living in beruit to cover Al-islamoon, bakeri mohammed and Hasan Nasrullah) when asked what motivates him to write and expose the lies and deceit of born again religious elite (evangelicals) disguised as republican GOP and new labour he said the search for truth, no matter who utters it.

    Pak Tea House 2009

  • The Vanuatu scrubfowl (Megapodius layardi), Santa Cruz ground-dove (Gallicolumba sanctaecrucis), Vanuatu imperial-pigeon (Ducula bakeri), chestnut-bellied kingfisher (Todirhampus farquhari), royal parrotfinch (Erythrura regia), and Santo Mountain starling (Aplonis santovestris) are all considered vulnerable.

    Vanuatu rain forests 2008

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