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- adjective
Johnson (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms having English names of the form "Johnson's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Johnson.
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Examples
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The tiny Banff Springs snail Physella johnsoni, discovered in 1926, is listed as endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
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He learned to wheedle and bully the little, mild amphibian people into harvesting the bulbous underwater growth of Hyacinthus veneris johnsoni-Venus swamproot-and to bribe the co-operation of their matriarchs with promises of bonuses in the form of 'thigarek', a term which meant not only cigarette, but tobacco in any form, the staple medium in trade when dealing with the natives.
The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967
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