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  2. Lucilia coeruleiviridis - Wikipedia

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    Lucilia coeruleiviridis, formerly Phaenecia coeruleiviridis, is commonly known as a green bottle fly, because of its metallic blue-green thorax and abdomen. L. coeruleiviridis was first discovered by French entomologist Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart in 1855. It belongs to the family Calliphoridae and is one of many forensically important Diptera ...

  3. Callinectes sapidus - Wikipedia

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    Blue crab escaping from the net along the Core Banks of North Carolina.. Callinectes sapidus (from the Ancient Greek κάλλος,"beautiful" + nectes, "swimmer", and Latin sapidus, "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or, regionally, the Maryland blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and introduced internationally.

  4. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Pronunciation - Wikipedia

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    Normally, pronunciation is given only for the subject of the article in its lead section. For non-English words and names, use the pronunciation key for the appropriate language. If a common English rendering of the non-English name exists (Venice, Nikita Khrushchev), its pronunciation, if necessary, should be indicated before the non-English one.

  5. Kalyāṇa-mittatā - Wikipedia

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    Kalyāṇa-mittatā ( Pali; Skt.: -mitratā; CHN: 善知識) is a Buddhist concept of "admirable friendship" within Buddhist community life, applicable to both monastic and householder relationships. One involved in such a relationship is known as a "good friend", "virtuous friend", "noble friend" or "admirable friend" ( kalyāṇa-mitta, -mitra ).

  6. Betelgeuse - Wikipedia

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    Betelgeuse, α Ori, 58 Ori, HR 2061, BD +7°1055, HD 39801, FK5 224, HIP 27989, SAO 113271, GC 7451, CCDM J05552+0724, AAVSO 0549+07. Database references. SIMBAD. data. Betelgeuse is a red supergiant star in the constellation of Orion. It is usually the tenth-brightest star in the night sky and, after Rigel, the second-brightest in its ...

  7. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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    The 'y' represents the pronunciation of the original Urdu "pāy-jāma", and in the 18th century spellings such as "paijamahs" and "peijammahs" appeared: this is reflected in the pronunciation / p aɪ ˈ dʒ ɑː m ə z / (with the first syllable rhyming with "pie") offered as an alternative in the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

  8. Baltimore accent - Wikipedia

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    The Baltimore accent that originated among white blue-collar residents closely resembles blue-collar Philadelphia-area English pronunciation in many ways. These two cities are the only major ports on the Eastern Seaboard never to have developed non-rhotic speech among European American speakers; they were greatly influenced in their early development by Hiberno-English, Scottish English, and ...

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