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Actaea Nanchuanensis
Actaea may refer to: Mythology * Actaea (mythology), one of two characters from Greek mythology Biology * ''Actaea'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants * ''Actaea'' (crab), a genus of crabs Astronomy * ''Actaea'' (moon), the moon of the trans-Neptunian object 120347 Salacia Other * ''Actaea'' (pilot boat), a New York pilot boat * Actaea, pseudonym of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; Cary; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author a ... (1822–1907), naturalist {{Disambiguation Genus disambiguation pages lt:Aktaja pl:Czerniec (roślina) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actaea (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Actaeä or Aktaia (; , from ) may refer to the following figures: * Actaea or Actea, the Nereids, Nereid of rocky shore. These 50 sea-nymphs are daughters of the "Old Man of the Sea" Nereus and the Oceanids, Oceanid Doris (Oceanid), Doris. Actaea and her other sisters appeared to Thetis when she cried out in sympathy for the grief of Achilles for his slain friend Patroclus.Homer, ''Iliad'18.39-51/ref> * Actaea, a Ancient Libya, Libyan princess was one of the Danaïdes, daughters of King Danaus and Pieria (mythology), Pieria. She married and murdered her cousin Periphas, son of Aegyptus on their wedding night at the command of her father. Other use Actaea, the former name of Attica, whose first king was Actaeus. It was renamed in honour of Atthis (mythology), Atthis, daughter of King Cranaus of History of Athens, Athens.Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias1.2.6/ref> Notes References *Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actaea (plant)
''Actaea'', commonly called baneberry, bugbane and cohosh, is a genus of flowering plants of the family Ranunculaceae, native to subtropical, temperate and subarctic regions of Europe, Asia and North America. Taxonomy The genus was redefined to include ''Cimicifuga'' and ''Souliea'' in the 1990s (Compton et al. 1998, Compton & Culham 2002, Gao et al. 2006, RHS Plant Finder, 2007) based on combined evidence from DNA sequence data, similarity in biochemical constituents and on morphology returning it to the original Linnean concept of the genus. The number of species in ''Actaea'' is to 25–30 using this concept. Other botanists (e.g., Hoffman 1999, Wang et al. 1999, Lee & Park 2004, Wang et al. 2009) reject this merger because only one group (''Actaea'') have fleshy fruit while the remainder have dry fruit. However, this narrower generic concept works for only a single morphological character and other characters such as number of carpels moves the generic boundary. The genus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actaea (crab)
''Actaea'' is a genus of crabs in the family Xanthidae Xanthidae is a family (biology), family of crabs known as gorilla crabs, mud crabs, pebble crabs or rubble crabs. Xanthid crabs are often brightly coloured and are highly poisonous, containing toxins which are not destroyed by cooking and for wh ..., containing the following species: References Xanthidae {{Xanthoidea-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actaea (moon)
Actaea, formal designation (120347) Salacia I, is a natural satellite of the classical Kuiper belt object 120347 Salacia. Its diameter is estimated to be approximately , which is approximately one-third the diameter of Salacia; thus, Salacia and Actaea are viewed by William Grundy et al. to be a binary system. Assuming that the following size estimates are correct, Actaea is about the sixth-biggest known moon of a trans-Neptunian object, after Charon (1212 km), Dysnomia (700 km), Vanth (443 km), Ilmarë (326 km), and Hiiaka (320 km), but possibly also Hiisi (250 km). Discovery and name It was discovered on 21 July 2006 by Keith S. Noll, Harold Levison, Denise Stephens, and Will Grundy with the Hubble Space Telescope. On 18 February 2011, it was officially named Actaea after the Nereid In Greek mythology, the Nereids or Nereides ( ; ; , also Νημερτές) are sea nymphs (female spirits of sea waters), the 50 daughters of the ' Old Man of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Actaea (pilot Boat)
The ''Actaea'', or ''Actea'', was a 19th-century Boston yacht built in 1880 by Weld and David Clark of Kennebunk, Maine for David Sears, Jr., of Montgomery Sears of Boston. She was purchased by a group of New York Sandy Hook Pilots in 1890. She was one of the largest and fastest pilot boats in the fleet. In the age of steam, the ''Actaea'' was sold in 1896 to John J. Phelps of the New York Yacht Club and used as a pleasure yacht. Construction and service The two-masted schooner ''Actaea'' was built in 1880 by Mr. Weld and David Clark, as a Boston yacht at Kennebunk, Maine, for David Sears, Jr., of Montgomery Sears of Boston. ''Actaea'' comes from the Greek myth Actaea, which means seashore. The American yacht ''Actea'' of Boston was at Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was repaired and sailed back to Boston on July 24, 1880. The ''Actaea'' was registered with ''Record of American and Foreign Shipping'' from 1881 through 1900 as a Schooner Yacht, with the David Sears as the owner; b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (pseudonym, Actaea; Cary; December 5, 1822 – June 27, 1907) was an American educator, naturalist, writer, and the co-founder and first president of Radcliffe College. A researcher of natural history, she was an author and illustrator of natural history texts as well as a co-author of natural history texts with her husband, Louis Agassiz, and her stepson Alexander Agassiz. Agassiz traveled to Brazil with her husband from 1865 to 1866, and on the Hassler expedition from 1871 to 1872; of the second, she wrote an account for the ''Atlantic Monthly''. She published ''A First Lesson in Natural History'' (Boston, 1859) and edited ''Geological Sketches'' (1866). Early life and education Elizabeth Cabot Cary was born on December 5, 1822, into a Boston Brahmin family of New England ancestry. She was born at the house of her grandfather, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, on Pearl Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Mary Ann Cushing Perkins Cary and Thomas Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. phylogenetic analysis should clearly demonstrate both monophyly and validity as a separate lineage). # rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
