Definitions
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- adjective
Forrest (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Forrest's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Forrest.
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Examples
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People like George Forest who barely escaped with his neck to bring us rhododendron forrestii and r. sinogrande (the largest leafed rhododendron in the world) after most of his party was murdered by Tibetan monks.
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