Comment on English has too many words for animals

• Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Technically this is nor taxonomy, since we aren’t talking about relatedness. This is just linguistics.

  explanation

  Land dwelling evolved multiple times in turtles, like in box turtles, which are not in the clade of tortoises, but would fit the common definition of tortoise.

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