Definitions
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- adjective
Pierre (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Pierre's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Pierre, but especially French botanist Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre.
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Examples
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Hopea pierrei may be the most abundant of the large trees, forming up to 90 percent of all trunks reaching more than 1 m in diameter.
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Two of the more abundant are the tropical taxa, Dacrydium pierrei (a threatened species) and Podocarpus imbricata.
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One of the most abundant canopy species in wet evergreen forests is Hopea pierrei, a small tree of limited distribution outside of this area.
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Also important as canopy trees in this area were Parkia streptocarpa, Heritiera javanica, Swintonia pierrei, and Syzygium cinereum.
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