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    meaning "pipe" or "tube" and refers to the hollow branches of S. vulgaris. Homonym Syringa Tourn. ex Adans. is a heterotypic synonym of Philadelphus. Lilacs...
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    Tibetan skar (category Economy of Tibet)
    skar gang in Tibetan. Since the 1950s, China has issued the homonymic mimangxogngü skar in Tibet, which is a synonym of renminbi fen. Since 1959, all traditional...
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    Kinnara (section Tibet)
    celestial musician, and is often iconographically depicted with cymbals. A homonymic play on words is evident which is a marker of oral lore: the 'shang' (Tibetan:...
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    brevivaginatus Alderw. - Sumatra Pothos chinensis (Raf.) Merr. - China, Tibet, Taiwan, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Indochina, Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan...
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    meant a kind of cake made of unwinnowed corn (-lexicons); An unrelated homonym, compounded from ud "apart" + pala "flesh" means 'fleshless, emaciated'...
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    Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan Adenophora kayasanensis – Gayasan ladybell – Korea Adenophora khasiana (syn. A. bulleyana) – Assam, Bhutan, Myanmar, Tibet, Sichuan...
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    Hedychium spicatum is a plant species native to China (Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan), the Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand and Ethiopia. Hedychium spicatum...
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    Himalayas (N + E India, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet), Thailand, Myanmar Trachelospermum bodinieri (H.Lév.) Woodson - Tibet, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou...
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    considered to be a taxonomic synonym of Palaquium gutta (Hook.) Burck, and a homonym of its basionym Isonandra gutta Hook..) A subspecies of Central American...
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  • (Munro ex Aitch.) Stapf - Kurram Valley in Pakistan + Afghanistan names in homonymic genus in Hyacinthaceae see Drimia Duthiea macrocarpa - Drimia macrocarpa...
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    Kālī is the goddess of "Time or death" and the consort of Shiva. The homonym kālá (time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated...
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    calcicola - Yunnan Isodon capillipes - Sri Lanka Isodon coetsa - China, Tibet, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Indonesia, Philippines Isodon colaniae...
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    menglianensis - Yunnan Ophiopogon micranthus - Assam Ophiopogon motouensis - Tibet Ophiopogon multiflorus - Guangxi Ophiopogon ogisui - Guangxi Ophiopogon...
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    'arrow' and the river's name is doubted, and they are likely to be Latin homonyms. In 1758, Carl Linnaeus described the tiger in his work Systema Naturae...
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    Mongolia, Afghanistan, Pakistan Gagea flavonutans (H.Hara) Zarrei & Wilkin – Tibet, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam Gagea foliosa (C.Presl) Schult. & Schult.f...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
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    commonly referred to collectively as Lunar New Year, such as the Losar of Tibet, the Tết of Vietnam, the Korean New Year, and the Ryukyu New Year. It is...
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    Pennisetum lanatum – Afghanistan, northern India, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Nepal, Tibet Pennisetum latifolium – Uruguay fountaingrass – South America from Colombia...
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  • Prunus clarofolia (category Flora of Tibet)
    August 2014). "Names of extant angiosperm species that are illegitimate homonyms of fossils" (PDF). Annales Botanici Fennici. 51 (5): 305–317. doi:10.5735/085...
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    Masamura - Japan Glyceria tonglensis C.B.Clarke - Himalayas, China incl Tibet formerly included Numerous species now considered better suited to other...
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  • dongvanensis T.Q.Nguyen – Vietnam Neomicrocalamus prainii (Gamble) Keng f. – Tibet, Yunnan, Meghalaya, Myanmar Neomicrocalamus yunnanensis (T.H.Wen) Ohrnb...
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    persisted until as late as 1957, but it was ultimately made invalid as a later homonym at the species level. The current species name comes from Walter T. Swingle...
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    loanwords are used and necessary to distinguish between otherwise ambiguous homonyms. Vietnam used to write in chữ Hán (Chinese characters) in Classical Chinese...
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    barbatus - Mediterranean and neighboring regions (from Canary Islands to Tibet); South Africa; naturalized in scattered locations in Australia, United...
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  • style" (literally, "Grass Mud Horse Style"; the Chinese characters are a homonym for a vulgar slur) was uploaded onto YouTube and other Chinese websites...
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    French: Pays Basque) as a cultural region (not to be confused with the homonym Autonomous Community of the Basque country) is a European region in the...
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    (Schousb.) Link - western Mediterranean, Canary Is Vulpia alpina L.Liu - Tibet Vulpia antucensis Trin. - Chile, Argentina Vulpia australis (Nees) Blom...
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    endemic to China, found in the provinces of Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan, Xizang (Tibet), and Yunnan. The species epithet flavum is Latin for yellow and indicates...
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  • offer a wide spectrum of styles, either monarchic (mostly identical to homonyms in larger states) or republican, see Chief magistrate. Doges were elected...
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