Corax can refer to:
Biology
* ''corax'', the scientific species name of the
common raven
The common raven or northern raven (''Corvus corax'') is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all Corvidae, corvids, found across the Northern Hemisphere. There are 11 accepted subspecies with little variatio ...
(''Corvus corax'')
* ''corax'', a
species name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, altho ...
* ''Corax'', the former name of a genus of fossil sharks, ''
Squalicorax
''Squalicorax'', commonly known as the crow shark, is a genus of extinct lamniform shark known to have lived during the Cretaceous period. The genus had a global distribution in the Late Cretaceous epoch. Multiple species within this genus are co ...
''
People
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Corax (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Corax () or Corex can refer to either:
* Corax, the 16th king of Sicyon who reigned for 30 years.Eusebius, ''Chronographia'63/ref> He was the elder son and heir of King Coronus (mythology), Coronus, descendant of the city's fo ...
, a legendary king of
Sicyon
Sicyon (; ; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyōn was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. The ruins lie just west of th ...
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Corax of Syracuse
Corax (, ''Korax''; fl. 5th century BC) was one of the founders (along with Tisias) of ancient Greek rhetoric. Some scholars contend that both founders are merely legendary personages, others that Corax and Tisias were the same person, described ...
, one of the founders of Greek rhetoric
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Predrag Koraksić Corax
Predrag Koraksić Corax (; born 15 June 1933) is a Serbian political caricaturist.
Name signature
He writes his signature Corax using Latin characters and spelling.
Biography
Koraksić was born on 15 June 1933 in Gornja Gorevnica, near Čačak. ...
, political cartoonist from Serbia
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Janne Corax (born 1967), Swedish cyclist
Fictional people
*Corax, central character in ''
The Gospel of Corax'', 1996 Paul Park novel
*Corvus Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard Legion in the universe of
Warhammer 40,000
''Warhammer 40,000'' is a miniature wargame produced by Games Workshop. It is the most popular miniature wargame in the world, and is particularly popular in the United Kingdom. The first edition of the rulebook was published in September 1987 ...
Other uses
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BAE Systems Corax
The Corax, also known as Raven (''Corax'' being Latin for common raven, raven), was a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the British Armed Forces developed by BAE Systems Military Air & Information.
Its first test flight was in 2004 a ...
(also known as the 'Raven'), a British experimental unmanned aerial vehicle developed in 2004
* "Corax", abbreviation of
corporate action
A corporate action is an event initiated by a public company that brings or could bring an actual change to the debt securities—Share capital, equity or debt—issued by the company. Corporate actions are typically agreed upon by a company's ...
in the realm of corporate finance
See also
* ''Including use as a species name''
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Corex cough syrup
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