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Etymology of generic noun |
Greek, eggys = nearly + Greek,prosopon = a face (Ref. 45335). |
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Dr James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897–1968) was a South African chemist and ichthyologist most famous for identifying a stuffed fish as a coelacanth, then thought to have been extinct for millions of years. [...] |
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