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Tribal elders suggested Wo'aabi, an Indigenous word meaning "worm."
From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026
The dinosaur, unearthed on the Isle of Wight, has been given the name Istiorachis macaruthurae with the first word meaning "sail spine" and the second referring to Dame Ellen's surname.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
As I wrote in my 2023 book, “The Long Field – Wales and the Presence of Absence, a Memoir,” the very name “Wales” is a Saxon word meaning “Home of the Foreigners.”
From Salon • May 27, 2024
He taught me a Tahitian word, fiu, a kind of hand-flip word meaning “enough,” or “fed up.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
The first is a singular word meaning “occurrence” or “rate.”
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
