Definitions

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  • adjective Parry (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Parry's ..."

Etymologies

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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Parry.

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Examples

  • Desert larkspur (Delphinium parryi) is a perennial that has woody rootstocks but also sprouts only in wetter years.

    Adaptations of desert plants 2009

  • Commonly known as 'bunchgrass prairie', the fescue grasslands ecoregion is typified by the festuca/danthonia grass association (Festuca scabrella and Danthonia parryi).

    Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada 2008

  • (Macropus parryi) is also known as the Whiptail Wallaby, Grey-faced Wallaby, Grey or Blue Flierand and is found in eastern Australia. photo: Creative Commons/Gordon Wrigley

    WN.com - Articles related to Egyptian travelling circuses sell animals, not their shows, say activists 2010

  • Characteristic wildlife of the Taiga ecoregion are woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus spp. caribou), moose (Alces alces), bison (Bison bison), wolf (Canis lupus), black bear (Ursus americanus), marten (Martes americana), lynx (Lynx canadensis), and Arctic ground squirrel (Spermophilus parryi).

    Northwest Territories taiga 2007

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