Definitions
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- adjective
Richardson (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Richardson's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for any of several naturalists named Richardson.
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Examples
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Ridgway (1907: 523) reported _Contopus sordidulus veliei_, under the name _Myiochanes richardsonii richardsonii_, from Sierra Encarnación.
Birds from Coahuila, Mexico Emil K. Urban
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Dr. Richardson found in the stomach of this animal the remains of a seal, several marmots (Arctomys richardsonii) a large quantity of the liquorice root of Mackenzie (hedysarum) which is common on these shores, and some berries.
The Journey to the Polar Sea John Franklin 1816
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Studies on the growth of Icelandic Festuca rubra subsp. richardsonii at different levels of soil pH
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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