When you're in too deep

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• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I’ve had to give these answers more than a few times.

  I don’t know it. It does not have one. The latin genus is the common name.

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Then translate the latin name directly. Better to have Doria’s Big Three Ball than whatever a Megatriorchis doriae is. Even better, don’t name something Three Ball, it’s clickbait.

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    • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      No thank you.

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    • AffineConnection@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      3-ball is actually the mathematical term for a solid sphere.

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• frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Common nmes are often vague, e.g. what species is ‘wrack’ or ‘marigold’

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  • bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Bush tit

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  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I’d’a called 'em chazwazzas

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  “What kind of bug is this?”

  “The kind with 6 legs.”

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• danekrae@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It IS boa constrictor, I swear!

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  This is especially true when you are talking with people in various languages and they all want you to know the common name of an organism.

  More confusing is that I know some organisms only by their common name, some by both names and most only by scientific names.

  iNaturalist gives always gives me the scientific names first but varies in common names between the different local variants. It is confusing if some are in English, others in German or Spanish etc.

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