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- adjective
Gray (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms having English names of the form "Gray's ..."
Etymologies
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Examples
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One of the few birds permanently residing within the sand dunes is Gray's lark (Ammomanes grayi).
Kaokoveld desert 2008
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_Argus grayi_, and which inhabits Borneo, but the type of a new genus of the family Phasianidæ.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882 Various
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Agnia fasciata, belonging to the sub-family Hypselominæ, and Nemophas grayi, belonging to the Lamiinæ, were taken in Amboyna on the same fallen tree at the same time, and were supposed to be the same species till they were more carefully examined, and found to be structurally quite different.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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_Nemophas grayi_, a Longicorn mimicked by a Longicorn, 95.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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The Nemophas grayi is the larger, stronger, and better armed insect, and belongs to a more widely spread and dominant group, very rich in species and individuals, and is therefore most probably the subject of mimicry by the other species.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Clay-coloured Thrush / Robin Turdus grayi: Costa Rica's national bird, and abundant in Panama
10,000 Birds 2009
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Michaux's or Carolina lily (L. michauxii), and Gray's lily (L. grayi).
unknown title 2009
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Here are the ruins of » once celebrated fortrefs, on the fumrait of a rock; and Cloie to the town is a reck of aibeftos, a kind of mineral fubttance, of a grayi/h filvercidour, which can be drawn out mto longitudinal fibres as fine as thread, and
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