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    An animal epithet is a name used to label a person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal. Epithets may be formulated as similes...
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  • Animal communication Animal epithet Animal language Bioacoustics Cat organ & piganino Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias Field recording List of animal names...
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  • An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional'), also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or...
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    A plant epithet is a name used to label a person or group, by association with some perceived quality of a plant. Vegetable epithets may be pejorative...
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    "pod" of whales or "gaggle" of geese. Animal epithet Lists of animals List of animal sounds wikt:Appendix:Animals, a similar list on English Wiktionary...
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  • constraints Animal epithet, an epithet that compares a human to an animal basing on an animal trait thought as typical to this type of animal Anthropomorphism...
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  • necessarily outright war. Look up wargasm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Animal epithet Hardline Jingoism Warmonger (disambiguation) War dove Eaton, Clement...
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  • An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional') is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase)...
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    Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Animal epithet – Name for a person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal Army creole – Jargon or cant...
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  • Animal Crossing: Wild World is a 2005 social simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. It was...
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  • Zoology (redirect from Animal biology)
    scientific study of animals. Its studies include the structure, embryology, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct...
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    Pig (redirect from Sow (animal))
    earliest times in many cultures. Pig names are used in idioms and animal epithets, often derogatory, since pigs have long been linked with dirtiness...
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    Chthonic (section Epithets)
    deities were sometimes followed by an epithet, similar in concept to a surname. In this context, the purpose of an epithet was to describe a characteristic...
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    Worm (redirect from Worm (animal))
    Worms are many different distantly related bilateral animals that typically have a long cylindrical tube-like body, no limbs, and usually no eyes. Worms...
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  • Look up slur or epithet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have...
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    the Upper Paleolithic, about 40,000 years ago, examples of zoomorphic (animal-shaped) works of art occur that may represent the earliest known evidence...
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    art, the Set animal, or sha, is the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also commonly...
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    The numerous epithets of Jupiter indicate the importance and variety of the god's functions in ancient Roman religion. Jupiter's most ancient attested...
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    species belongs, whereas the second part – the specific name or specific epithet – distinguishes the species within the genus. For example, modern humans...
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    earliest times in many cultures. Pig names are used in idioms and animal epithets, often derogatory, since pigs have long been linked with dirtiness...
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    Cracker, sometimes cracka or white cracker, is a racial epithet directed towards white people, used especially with regard to poor rural whites in the...
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    Epithets of Inanna were titles and bynames used to refer to this Mesopotamian goddess and to her Akkadian counterpart Ishtar. In Mesopotamia, epithets...
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  • This list of ethnic slurs and epithets is sorted into categories that can defined by race, ethnicity, or nationality. Most of these black slurs and all...
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    Genus (redirect from Generic epithet)
    the modern concept of genera". The scientific name (or the scientific epithet) of a genus is also called the generic name; in modern style guides and...
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    Despoina (category Epithets of Aphrodite)
    or Despoena (/dɛsˈpiːnə/; Greek: Δέσποινα, romanized: Déspoina) was the epithet of a goddess worshiped by the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece as...
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    Master of Animals, Lord of Animals, or Mistress of the Animals is a motif in ancient art showing a human between and grasping two confronted animals. The motif...
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    nonhuman animals inasmuch as they are part of human life – namely as farmed animals, food sources, and absent referents for animalized epithets directed...
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    whales. One skull discovered around 1780 was famously nicknamed the "great animal of Maastricht". In 1808, naturalist Georges Cuvier concluded that it belonged...
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  • Enodia (category Epithets of Artemis)
    light. The epithet is invoked with her other epithet patroa at Larisa. Stathmia (Greek: Σταθμια) an epithet that may be connected to the animal realm due...
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    extirpated several native snail species instead. The snail features in an animal epithet for its stereotypical slowness, while its shell-less relative the slug...
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