Rafinesque

[ rah-fee-nesk ]

noun

1. Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.

Example Sentences

Rafinesque has also preserved for us the names of many of the vine-growers of his time.

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Rafinesque, in 1830, described some three or four species within the bounds of what is now known as Vitis rotundifolia.

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Lincecumii seems to have been first described by Rafinesque, in 1830 under the name Vitis multiloba.

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The rock-bass was first described by the French naturalist, Rafinesque, in 1817, while travelling in America.

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Pylodictis olivaris (Rafinesque), flathead catfish: Canfield and Wiebe (1931:7) as "yellow catfish."

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