Definitions
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- adjective Commerson (attributive); used in taxonomic names for organisms that often have English names of the form "Commerson's ..."
Etymologies
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Named in a pseudo-Latin manner for French naturalist Philibert Commerson
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Examples
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Other species of small whales and dolphins present are the dusky dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus (DD), Peale's dolphin L. australis (DD), Commerson's dolphin Cephalorhynchus commersonii (DD) and long-finned pilot whale Globycephala melas.
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What we were catching is actually called a white sucker, scientific name Catostomus commersonii.
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The inheritance of virus resistance in the wild potato species Solanum chacoense Bitt. and S. commersonii Dun
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