verb+ plant species
English translation: classified/described/identified
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| English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO] Art/Literary - Botany | |||||
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|  Selected response from: Margaret Schroeder Mexico Local time: 15:54 | ||||
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| 4 +1 | identified, described, discovered... |
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| 4 +1 | identified |
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| 4 | classified/described/identified |
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peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1identified, described, discovered... Explanation: depending ;) |
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classified/described/identified Explanation: The most appropriate word may depend on the details of what the botanist really did. See, for example, http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/bio/gdiggs/taxonomy.ht... |
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1 min confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1identified Explanation: ...for example http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 mins (2005-02-21 01:34:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06... of environments. Darwin identified 13 species of finches in the Galápagos Islands. This was puzzling since he ... http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_2.htm Darwin identified 13 species of Finches among the islands that were primarily differentiated by beak size. In contrast ... http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Evolution/Darwin\'sFinches.htm -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 30 mins (2005-02-21 02:02:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ...to nicely compare :-)) on described....( if one says identify, of course it is implied the specied is described, classified ...etc :-) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06... As for discovered, what does it mean?? He went for a walk discovered them, but failed to identify them?? :-))He is a botanist after all. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-06... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 38 mins (2005-02-21 02:10:32 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- ...and sorry for typo :-) \"species\" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 48 mins (2005-02-21 02:20:57 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- ...and to make it more exciting, botanist goes for a walk, discovers 150 new (???) species, thinks to himself...oh bother!.....cannot bear describing and classifying....on order to be credited with identifying them....let someone else do it :-)))) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 49 mins (2005-02-21 02:21:18 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- ..in order :-)) |
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