User:Pengo/Latin/Most wanted

I believe these words (mostly taxonomic epithets) ought to be a priority to add to Wiktionary.

Feel free to remove items when the entry is created.

Popular species on Wikipedia

 * 1) Roselle (plant), Hibiscus sabdariffa
 * 2) Blue-tailed Skink, Cryptoblepharus egeriae - Egeria: was a Roman nymph - apart from that, I'm stuck
 * 3) Cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha - no idea
 * 4) Yellow-bellied Weasel, Mustela kathiah
 * 5) Potato cod, Epinephelus tukula
 * 6) Hadada Ibis, Bostrychia hagedash
 * 7) Brazilian wandering spider, Phoneutria eickstedtae, P. nigriventer
 * 8) Groundhog, Marmota monax
 * 9) St John's wort, Hypericum perforatum
 * 10) Black mamba, Dendroaspis polylepis
 * 11) Soybean, Glycine max
 * 12) Cranberry, Vaccinium oxycoccos (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
 * 13) Bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas
 * 14) Pseudoscorpion, Chelifer cancroides

Popular Wikipedia articles with binomial titles

 * 1) Paracanthurus hepatus	- regal tang (fish) - looks like it ought to be related to the liver (hepatic etc), but I don't see why (we have hepaticus:) -- hepar mentions "a kind of fish"? No idea if it's related.
 * 2) Mimosa tenuiflora - tree or shrub
 * 3) chamaemorus stercoralis - cloudberry
 * 4) Robinia pseudoacacia - Black Locust (honey plant)
 * 5) Manilkara zapota - sapodilla (fruit)
 * 6) Ficus benjamina - Weeping Fig (topiary tree)
 * 7) Albizia julibrissin - Persian silk tree
 * 8) Jasminum sambac - jasmine
 * 9) Pandanus amaryllifolius
 * 10) Liriodendron tulipifera
 * 11) Pimoa cthulhu
 * 12) Cinnamomum camphora
 * 13) Tineola bisselliella
 * 14) Eleutherococcus senticosus
 * 15) juncea axyridis dactylon leonurus saprophyticus cinctulus melegueta vesca molurus alnifolia virosa coracana variolus rhoeas phoenicolasius idaeus unedo deodara zizanioides jalapa leucodermis pentandra hederacea

Threatened

 * ''Complete list: User:Pengo/Latin/Threatened


 * 1) orestes
 * 2) maya
 * 3) campanulata
 * 4) isolata
 * 5) chrysantha
 * 6) isabellae
 * 7) dryas
 * 8) satanas
 * 9) polylepis
 * 10) dominicensis
 * 11) aliciae
 * 12) brachyphylla
 * 13) bracteosa
 * 14) spruceana
 * 15) laurae
 * 16) platycephalus
 * 17) urceolata
 * 18) sandwicensis
 * 19) calophylla
 * 20) lepidota
 * 21) rhomboidea
 * 22) sclerophylla
 * 23) macrodon
 * 24) heterotricha
 * 25) macrostoma
 * 26) bacchus
 * 27) ilicifolia

Commonly used in systematic names (according to Wikipedia)
Terms we're missing from:.

The Wikipedia article above includes definitions for the terms.

Latin

 * eburni- (eburneus) L. eburni-? - fix on list
 * ensatus, L. sword-like (ensis, ensifer, ensiculus)
 * erythropoda L. compound-word
 * lactiflora, L. compound: milk-white flowered
 * rostralis - L. With a beak
 * specios- - L. showy
 * tardi- (tardus) - L. Slow, late
 * triquetrus - L. Triangular, three-cornered

Ancient Greek
Requested entries (Ancient Greek)


 * 1)  — sweet (glycys)
 * 2)  — opposite (enanti)
 * 3)  — wool (erion, erio-)
 * 4)  kestos (cestus)
 * , — Dark, Black (mauro-)
 * 1)  — stemless (acaulis)
 * 2)  — gills (branchia)
 * 3)  — single, simple (haplo-)
 * 4)  — light (lepton) - neuter form of
 * 5)  — small (micro), see also
 * , — eight (octo-, octa-), see
 * , — carry (oeso-), see also, oesophagus
 * 1)  — eat (phago), see also:

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Three-letter epithets
Each found in ten or more genera.


 * = eous
 * (interjection)
 * = Pan ?
 * = udus ?
 * (interjection)
 * = Pan ?
 * = udus ?
 * = Pan ?
 * = udus ?
 * = Pan ?
 * = udus ?
 * = Pan ?
 * = udus ?
 * = udus ?
 * = udus ?

5–9 genera:

Vertebrata

 * via Vertebrata (Wikispecies)

Vertebrata, Cladi: Hyperoartia - Gnathostomata - †Anaspida - †Conodonta (syn: †Conodontophorida)- †Galeaspida - †Osteostraci - †Pituriaspida - †Pteraspidomorphi - †Thelodonti


 * Hyperoartia, Classes: Cephalaspidomorphi
 * Gnathostomata, Cladi: Chondrichthyes (classis) - Osteichthyes - Tetrapoda - †Acanthodii - †Placodermi
 * Anaspida, Ordo: Birkeniida . . . 
 * Galeaspida Ordines (4): †Eugaleaspidiformes - Galeaspidiformes - †Huananaspidiformes - †Polybranchiaspidiformes
 * Osteostraci, Ordines: Benneviaspida - Cephalaspida - Cornuata - Kiaeraspidida - Thyestiida - Zenaspida
 * Pituriaspida, Genera: Pituriaspis - Neeyambaspis
 * Pteraspidomorphi, Ordines: Arandaspida - Heterostraci - Thelodontidae - Eriptychiida - Astraspida
 * Thelodonti, Ordo: Katoporida . . .

Tetrapod groups

 * via: Tetrapod (wikipedia)


 * Phylum Chordata
 * Class Sarcopterygii
 * Subclass Tetrapodomorpha
 * Eusthenopteron
 * Panderichthys
 * Ventastega
 * Superclass Tetrapoda
 * Family elginerpeton | Elginerpetontidae
 * Family acanthostega | Acanthostegidae
 * Family ichthyostega | Ichthyostegidae
 * Hynerpeton
 * Family Tulerpeton
 * Family crassigyrinus | Crassigyrinidae
 * Family Loxommatidae
 * Family Colosteidae
 * Family Whatcheeriidae
 * Family Diadectidae
 * Batrachomorpha (directly above, below, or redundant to Amphibia)
 * Class amphibian | Amphibia — Amphibians
 * Subclass Temnospondyli

Popular Primates

 * Ateles chamek
 * Tarsius syrichta

Entries that were previously on this page were in the same order as: Most Common Epithets (page 1) - look for red links there too