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Binomial name: Lycoris radiata

Lyrcoris: a Greek work that means "twillight"

radiata: a latin word that translates to "rayed" in English

The flower receives its name from its shape.

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Name: Phoenicopterus ruber

The origin of "Phoenicopterus" comes from the Greek word "phoinix" and "pteron". "Phoinix" means red, carmine (a vivid, crimson colour) and "pteron" means wing.

"Ruber" (the species) is a latin word that means red due to the colouration of its livery.

This name was chosen because of the bird's colour.

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Binomial Nomenclature: Haliaeetus leucocephalus

Haliaeetus - derived from the Greek word haliaetos which means bird
leucocephalus - a Latin word that means bald-headed

When put together, it refers to "the sea eagle with a white head"

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Name: Choloepus Hoffmanni
Choloepus. : the genus consisting of the two-toed sloth.

What are they?
Sloths are a group of neotropical xenathran

arboreal mammals, formed by the Folivora suborder. Noted for the slowness of movement, they spend most of their time hanging

upside down in the trees of the South American and Central American rainforests.

- Shahar

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name : Panthera onca

The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a large felid species and the only extant member of the genus Panthera native to the Americas. The jaguar's present range extends from Southwestern United States and Mexico in North America, across much of Central America, and south to Paraguay and northern Argentina in South America.

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Name: Giraffa camelopardalis

Giraffa has its earliest known origins in Arabic perhaps borrowed from the animal's Somali name geri. The Arab name is translated as "fast-walker".

Camelopard is an archaic English name for the giraffe deriving from the Ancient Greek for camel and leopard, referring to its camel-like shape and its leopard-like colouring.

- Maeve

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Binomial name: Hippocampus heptagonus

Hippocampus comes from the ancient term in greek "hippokampos" in which 'hippo' means horse and 'kampos' means sea meaning sea mister, and referring to having the neck and head of a horse.

The name heptagonus means seven angled or seven cornered, this is because of the very unusual structure of their bodies which are made up of many angled segemnts
- Ori

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Name: Tursiops truncatus

Tursiops, comes from the Latin meaning to look like a dolphin-like fish, tursio. The 'ops' means to look like.

Truncatus, means 'shortened or cut off' in Latin. This further refers to their shortened snout.

- Saveena

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Name: Chelonia mydas

Chelonia is from the Greek word chelone which means tortoise.

Mydas is also a Greek word, mydos, which means wetness (in terms of its aquatic habitat)

- Soha

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Name : Vulpes Vulpes

Vulpes is the latin word for the canidae which is related to animals like the red fox. Vulpes is the genus so other closely related foxes have other names.  Vulpes translates to foxes. - Neha

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Name: Cygnus

Cygnus is a latin word which directly translates to swan.
- Miyo

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Name : Leopardus pardalis

Leopardus comes from the Ancient Greek of Leopardos. Which further breaks into Leos which meant lion and pardos which meant male panther.

Pardalis comes from the latin word pardus. Pardus meant mottled.

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Name: Phascolarctos

Phascolarctos, in Greek is derived from the word phaskolos which means  "pouch" and arktos  which means "bear".

In Latin, the specific name cinereus, means "ash coloured".
- Maayan

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Name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Ailuropoda comes from the Latin words, Ailuro and Poda. Ailuro meaning domestic cat and Poda is a taxonomic name for animals having feet or foot-like parts.

Melanoleuca comes from the ancient greek words, melas and leucos. Melas meaning black and Leucos meaning white.
- Jodi

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Name : Vitula eligans
Vitula is a latin word that translate to calf in english
Eligans, is also a latin word which translates as a heifer which is a female cow in English.
- Oisin

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Name: Panthera uncia

Panthera, in Greek means all (pan) + beast of prey (ther), meaning that it is a beast that eats everything.

Uncia, is a Latinized French word 'once', which was used to describe 'big cats'

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A good list of latin / greek roots in biology

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A good list of latin / greek roots in biology

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This could be a place for reference.