- was
mentioned in
Pliny the Elder's
Natural History under the Gr**** name
kuanos (κυανός: "deep blue," root of
English cyan) and the
Latin name caeruleum...
- Gr**** word κύανος. This is
typically rendered into
English as
kyanos or
kuanos and
means "dark blue."
Kyanite is used as a raw
material in the manufacture...
- the same word to name
different colors, if they had the same intensity.
Kuanos could mean both dark blue and black. The
Ancient Romans had two
words for...
- red-legged
honeycreeper as the type species. The name
combines the
Ancient Gr****
kuanos meaning "dark-blue" and herpēs
meaning "creeper".
There are two
other tanagers...
-
cutis subcutaneous cyan(o)-
having a blue
color Gr**** κύανος, κυάνεος (
kúanos, kuáneos, blue, of the
color blue) cyanopsia,
cyanosis cycl- circle, cycle...
-
specific name cyanocephalus/cyanocephala
combines the
Ancient Gr****
words kuanos "dark-blue" and -kephalos "-headed". This
species is now
placed in the genus...
-
oxygenic photosynthesis. The name "cyanobacteria" (from
Ancient Gr**** κύανος (
kúanos) 'blue')
refers to
their bluish green (cyan) color,
which forms the basis...
- and subspecies: The name
Cyanocitta is a
combination of the Gr****
words kuanos,
meaning "dark blue", and kitta,
meaning "jay".
Crested jays
inhabit temperate...
- carry". The
specific cyanurus is also
derived from Gr****, the
roots being kuanos, "dark-blue", and oura, "tail". In the past
generally treated as comprising...
-
ornithologist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The
genus name
combines the
Ancient Gr****
kuanos meaning "dark-blue" and
rhamphos meaning "bill". The type
species was designated...
