Definitions
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- adjective
Hieronymus (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Hieronymus's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for the naturalist Georg Hans Emmo Wolfgang Hieronymus.
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Examples
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Above 1,800 m on shallow soil, grasslands of Festuca hieronymi and species of Stipa grow.
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Herbaceous species include Bromelia serra, B. hieronymi and Deinacanthon urbanianum.
Arid Chaco 2007
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Aside from savanna areas there are areas with saline soils where shrubby steppe species such as Heterostachys serra, B. hieronymi and Deinacanthon urbanianum.
Arid Chaco 2007
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