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- The word "baleen" derives from the Latin bālaena, related to the Gr**** phalaina – both of which mean "whale". The oldest true fossils of baleen are only...
- The name Phalaenopsis is derived from the Ancient Gr**** word φαλαινα (phalaina) meaning 'a kind of moth': 535  with the suffix -opsis meaning 'having...
- ornithologist Robert Ridgway in 1880. The genus name combines the Ancient Gr**** phalaina meaning "moth" and ptilon meaning "plumage". Six subspecies are recognised:...
- From this was derived the Roman word for whale, Cetus. Other names were phálaina (Aristotle, Latin form of ballaena) for the female and, with an ironic...
- pronounced wet and dry cycles. Phalaenopsis comes from the Gr**** word phalaina, which means "moth", and the Latin word bella, which means "beautiful"...
- further 13 languages, including Gr**** (Μελαίνῃ τῇ ἐν Φαλαίνᾳ (Melaínē tē en phalaína – Black in the whale)) and Volapük, which are sung one after the other...
- performances. Her first performance in 2005, at the Centre d'art Mira Phalaina in Montreuil involved her Glasgow friend Mary Knox. Knox was reading a...
- Hillaire, Autres Natures, Montreuil, Ed. Centre d’Art Modene Espace Mira Phalaina, 2001 Pierre Restany, Laurence Bertrand-Dorléac et Patrick Imbard, Miguel...