Corax can refer to:
Biology
* ''Corax'', the scientific species name of the
common raven
The common raven (''Corvus corax'') is a large all-black passerine bird. It is the most widely distributed of all corvids, found across the Northern Hemisphere. It is a raven known by many names at the subspecies level; there are at least ...
(''Corvus corax'')
* ''Corax'', a
species name
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bo ...
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''Corax'' (genus), a genus of fossil sharks
People
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Corax of Syracuse
Corax ( el, Κόραξ, ''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 per ...
, one of the founders of Greek rhetoric
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Predrag Koraksić Corax
Predrag Koraksić Corax ( sr, Предраг Кораксић Коракс; 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 ...
, political cartoonist from Serbia
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Janne Corax
Janne Corax (born 1967) is a Swedish cyclist, mountaineer and explorer. He has travelled in 110 countries and cycled more than 82,500 km. He lives in Målilla in southern Sweden. He is an authority on Tibet, across which he has made several ...
(born 1967), Swedish cyclist
Fictional people
*Corax, central character in ''
The Gospel of Corax
''The Gospel of Corax'' is a 1996 novel by Paul Park about an escaped Roman slave (Corax) who travels from Caesarea to India with a burly Essene man named Jeshua.
The novel is a suggestion of a historical Jesus' whereabouts during his "disappeara ...
'', 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 raven), is a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for the British Armed Forces being developed by BAE Systems Military Air & Information.
Its first test flight was in 2004 after a ten ...
(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 securities— equity or debt—issued by the company. Corporate actions are typically agreed upon by a company's board of directo ...
in the realm of corporate finance
See also
* ''Including use as a species name''
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Corex
Corex is a cough syrup sold by Pfizer Inc. It is available in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and a few other South Asian countries. Corex is a prescribed medicine.
Its active ingredients are chlorpheniramine maleate and codeine phosphate.
Me ...
cough syrup
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