Terminalia
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Terminalia can refer to:
- Terminalia (plant)Terminalia (plant)Terminalia is a genus of large trees of the flowering plant family Combretaceae, comprising around 100 species distributed in tropical regions of the world. This genus gets it name from Latin terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.Trees of this genus...
, a tree genus - Terminalia (mosquito), a mosquitoMosquitoMosquitoes are members of a family of nematocerid flies: the Culicidae . The word Mosquito is from the Spanish and Portuguese for little fly...
genus - a Roman festival to the god of boundaries TerminusTerminus (mythology)In Roman religion, Terminus was the god who protected boundary markers; his name was the Latin word for such a marker. Sacrifices were performed to sanctify each boundary stone, and landowners celebrated a festival called the "Terminalia" in Terminus' honor each year on February 23...
- the terminal regions (the acron in the anterior and the telson in the posterior) in insects; see for instance regional specification in Drosophila melanogaster
- Polyscias terminalia, a plant species in the genus PolysciasPolysciasPolyscias is a genus of flowering plant of family Araliaceae, comprising 114 species. They bear pinnate leaves....