Definitions
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- adjective
Lawrence (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Lawrence's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Lawrence.
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Examples
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The mountain plum-pine (Podocarpus lawrencei) is the only alpine conifer in mainland Australia.
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I separated the Punjab Raven under the name of _Corvus lawrencei_
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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C. thibetanus_, and _C. japonensis_ all as one and the same species, then _C. lawrencei_ too must be suppressed; but if any of these are retained as distinct, then so must _C. lawrencei_ be [A].
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870
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