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77 relations: Agar, Amazon rainforest, Andes, Argentina, Artocarpus, Atlantic Forest, Bagassa, Barbados, Brazil, Brosimum, Brosimum alicastrum, Caatinga, Camouflage, Carl Linnaeus, Caryocar, Castilla elastica, Ceiba, Cerrado, Chile, Clarisia, Colima, Corrientes Province, Couma, Decomposition, Elytron, Encyclopædia Britannica, Enterolobium, Eucalyptus, Ficus, Fungus, Genetics, Genus, Guazuma, Hidalgo (state), Inga, Inhibitor cystine knot, Insect collecting, Interandean Valles, Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, Latin, Lichen, Lonchocarpus, Longhorn beetle, Maclura, Macropophora, Mandible (insect mouthpart), Mexico, Misiones Province, Monotypic taxon, Morin (flavonol), ... Expand index (27 more) »
Agar
Agar, or agar-agar, is a jelly-like substance consisting of polysaccharides obtained from the cell walls of some species of red algae, primarily from "ogonori" (Gracilaria) and "tengusa" (Gelidiaceae).
Amazon rainforest
The Amazon rainforest, also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.
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Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Artocarpus
Artocarpus is a genus of approximately 60 trees and shrubs of Southeast Asian and Pacific origin, belonging to the mulberry family, Moraceae.
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Atlantic Forest
The Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera.
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Bagassa
Bagassa guianensis is a tree in the plant family Moraceae which is native to the Guianas and Brazil.
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Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region next to North America and north of South America, and is the most easterly of the Caribbean islands.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Brosimum
Brosimum is a genus of plants in the family Moraceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.
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Brosimum alicastrum
Brosimum alicastrum, commonly known as breadnut, Maya nut or ramon, and many others, is a tree species in the family Moraceae of flowering plants, whose other genera include figs and mulberries.
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Caatinga
Caatinga is a type of semi-arid tropical vegetation, and an ecoregion characterized by this vegetation in interior northeastern Brazil.
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Camouflage
Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see, or by disguising them as something else.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Caryocar
Caryocar (souari trees) is a genus of flowering plants, in the South American family Caryocaraceae described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1771.
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Castilla elastica
Castilla elastica, the Panama rubber tree, is a tree native to the tropical areas of Mexico, Central America, and northern South America.
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Ceiba
Ceiba is a genus of trees in the family Malvaceae, native to tropical and subtropical areas of the Americas (from Mexico and the Caribbean to northern Argentina) and tropical West Africa.
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Cerrado
The Cerrado is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, being present in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná and the Federal District.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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Clarisia
Clarisia is a genus of trees in the family Moraceae, native to North and South America, ranging from Mexico to Bolivia.
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Colima
Colima, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Colima (Estado Libre y Soberano de Colima), is among the 31 states that make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico.
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Corrientes Province
Corrientes (‘currents’ or ‘streams’; Taragui), officially the Province of Corrientes (Provincia de Corrientes; Taragui Tetãmini) is a province in northeast Argentina, in the Mesopotamia region.
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Couma
Couma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae first described as a genus in 1775.
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Decomposition
Decomposition or rot is the process by which dead organic substances are broken down into simpler organic or inorganic matter such as carbon dioxide, water, simple sugars and mineral salts.
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Elytron
An elytron (elytra) is a modified, hardened forewing of beetles (Coleoptera), though a few of the true bugs (Hemiptera) such as the family Schizopteridae are extremely similar; in true bugs, the forewings are called hemelytra (sometimes alternatively spelled as "hemielytra"), and in most species only the basal half is thickened while the apex is membranous, but when they are entirely thickened the condition is referred to as "coleopteroid".
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Enterolobium
Enterolobium is a genus of 12 species of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae, native to tropical and warm-temperate regions of the Americas.
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Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is a genus of more than 700 species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae.
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Ficus
Ficus is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae.
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Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
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Genetics
Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Guazuma
Guazuma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Malvaceae.
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Hidalgo (state)
Hidalgo, officially the Free and Sovereign State of Hidalgo (Estado Libre y Soberano de Hidalgo), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, constitute the 32 federal entities of Mexico.
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Inga
Inga is a genus of small tropical, tough-leaved, nitrogen-fixing treesElkan, Daniel.
Inhibitor cystine knot
An inhibitor cystine knot (also known as ICK or Knottin) is a protein structural motif containing three disulfide bridges.
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Insect collecting
Insect collecting refers to the collection of insects and other arthropods for scientific study or as a hobby.
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Interandean Valles
The term Interandean valles refers to those valleys located in the Andes mountains.
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Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger
Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (19 November 1775 – 10 May 1813) was a German entomologist and zoologist.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
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Lonchocarpus
Lonchocarpus is a plant genus in the legume family (Fabaceae).
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Longhorn beetle
The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae), also known as long-horned or longicorns (whose larvae are often referred to as roundheaded borers), are a large family of beetles, with over 35,000 species described.
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Maclura
Maclura is a genus of flowering plants in the mulberry family, Moraceae.
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Macropophora
Macropophora is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species.
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Mandible (insect mouthpart)
Insect mandibles are a pair of appendages near the insect's mouth, and the most anterior of the three pairs of oral appendages (the labrum is more anterior, but is a single fused structure).
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.
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Misiones Province
Misiones (Missions) is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region.
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Morin (flavonol)
Morin is a yellow chemical compound that can be isolated from Maclura pomifera (Osage orange), Maclura tinctoria (old fustic), and from leaves of Psidium guajava (common guava).
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Morphology (biology)
Morphology in biology is the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.
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Morus (plant)
Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.
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Nakaseomyces glabratus
Nakaseomyces glabratus is a species of haploid yeast of the genus Nakaseomyces, previously known as Candida glabrata.
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Neotropical realm
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface.
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Oreodera
Oreodera is a genus of beetles in the family Cerambycidae, containing the following species.
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Paraguay
Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Paraguái Tavakuairetã), is a landlocked country in South America.
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Parahancornia
Parahancornia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apocynaceae, first described as a genus in 1922.
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Peptide
Peptides are short chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds.
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Perebea
Perebea is a genus of flowering plants in mulberry family, Moraceae.
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Persea
Persea is a genus of about 150 species of evergreen trees belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae.
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Pest (organism)
A pest is any organism harmful to humans or human concerns.
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Phoresis
Phoresis or phoresy is a temporary commensalistic relationship when an organism (a phoront or phoretic) attaches itself to a host organism solely for travel.
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Pseudoscorpion
Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida.
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Pupa
A pupa (pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages.
Rio Grande do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul ("Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil.
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Secondary forest
A secondary forest (or second-growth forest) is a forest or woodland area which has regenerated through largely natural processes after human-caused disturbances, such as timber harvest or agriculture clearing, or equivalently disruptive natural phenomena.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Species complex
In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so similar in appearance and other features that the boundaries between them are often unclear.
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Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
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Subtropics
The subtropical zones or subtropics are geographical and climate zones to the north and south of the tropics.
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Theobroma cacao
Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae.
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Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean region of North America.
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
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Xylophagy
Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood.
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Yucatán Peninsula
The Yucatán Peninsula (also,; Península de Yucatán) is a large peninsula in southeast Mexico and adjacent portions of Belize and Guatemala.
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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References
Also known as Acrocinus, Acrocinus longimanus, Harlequin beetles.