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Species of moth
Thyrocopa alterna is a moth belonging to the family Xyloryctidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian islands
Thyrocopa_alterna
Moth genus in family Xyloryctidae
Thyrocopa is a genus of moths in the family Xyloryctidae endemic to Hawaii. The taxon has approximately forty species, including some flightless species
Thyrocopa
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
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English
English : variant of Mander 1.English : habitational name from Maund Bryan or Rose Maund in Herefordshire, possibly named in Old English as ‘(place at) the hollows’, from the dative plural of maga ‘stomach’ (used in a topographical sense). Mills suggests it may alternatively be a survival of an ancient Celtic term magnis, probably meaning ‘the rocks’.
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English (Gloucestershire and South Wales)
English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : most probably from the Norman personal name Luce (a vernacular form of Latin Lucia or Lucius). This is generally a female name, although male bearers are found in France. It was borne by a young Sicilian maiden and an aged Roman widow, both of whom were martyred under Diocletian and are venerated as saints.English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : Alternatively, the surname may be a variant of Lewis.English (Gloucestershire and South Wales) : American bearers of this surname are descended from Henry Luce (1640–c.1688), who came to Scituate, MA, from south Wales in or before 1666, and moved to Martha’s Vineyard, MA, in about 1670. He had many prominent descendants.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from Madron in Cornwall. Alternatively, possibly from Madryn in Gwynedd, Wales.
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English
English : habitational name from Mayland in Essex, possibly named in Old English as ‘land or estate (land) where mayweed (mægðe) grows’, or alternatively as ‘(place at) the island’, from Old English ēg-land, with the initial M- derived from a preceding ðǣm, dative case of the definite article.
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English (chiefly southern Lancashire)
English (chiefly southern Lancashire) : habitational name, probably from some place named as being a boggy place, from Old English mersc ‘marsh’ + land ‘land’. Alternatively, it may be a variant of Markland.
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English
English : perhaps a deliberate alteration of Leatherhead, a habitational name from Leatherhead in Surrey, which is named from Celtic lēd ‘gray’ + rïd ‘ford’, or alternatively a habitational name from Lythwood in Shropshire, which is named from Old English hlið ‘slope’ + wudu ‘wood’.Zachariah Leatherwood, son of John Leatherwood, was born in Prince William Co., VA, about 1735. After the revolutionary war, he settled in Spartanburg Co., SC, with his second wife, Jane Calvert, and many of his fourteen children.
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English
English : habitational name from a place in Cumbria, first recorded in 1220 in its present form. There is a chapel of St. Martin here, and the valley (see Dale) may be named from this. Alternatively, there may have been a landowner here called Martin, and the church dedication may be due to popular association of his name with that of the saint.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. It may be a nickname for a beggar, from an agent derivative of maund ‘beg’ (probably from Old French mendier, Late Latin mendicare); this word is not attested before the 16th century, but may well have been in use earlier. Alternatively it may be an occupational name for a maker of baskets, from an agent derivative of Middle English maund ‘basket’ (Old French mande, of Germanic origin); or perhaps for someone in some position of authority, from a shortened form of Middle English coma(u)nder (from coma(u)nden ‘to command’).German : habitational name from places called Mandern, in Hesse and the Rhineland.Belgian (van der Mander) : habitational name from a place called Ter Mandere or Mandel, in West Flanders, derived from the river name Mandel.Indian (Panjab) : Sikh (Dogar, Jat) name of unknown meaning, based on the names of clans in these communities.
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English (Norfolk)
English (Norfolk) : possibly a nickname for a philanderer, from Middle English love(n) ‘to love’ + well, or alternatively a variant of Lovell, altered through folk etymology.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : from the rare Old English masculine personal name Mocca, which may be related to a Germanic stem mokk- ‘to accumulate’, ‘to be heaped up’, and hence may originally have been a nickname for a heavy, thickset person. Alternatively, it could be from Middle English mokke ‘trick’, ‘joke’, ‘jest’, ‘act of jeering’, a derivative of mokke(n) ‘to mock’, from Old French moquer.German : variant of Maag.German : nickname for a short, thickset man, Middle High German mocke.Dutch : nickname from Middle Dutch mocke ‘dirty or wanton woman’, ‘slut’, or from West Flemish mokke ‘fat child’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : either an occupational name for a cowherd, from Middle English kineman ‘cattle man’ (not recorded except as a surname), or more probably from a Middle English survival of the Old English personal name Cynemann ‘royal man’, i.e. the king’s man.Scottish : according to Black, a reduced form of Kininmonth, a habitational name from either of two places so named in Fife; alternatively, it may be a variant of Kinmont, a habitational name from a place named Kinmont, in Annandale in the Borders.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : see Kin.Altered spelling of German Kinmann (see Kuehn).
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Southern Italian
Southern Italian : nickname for a fierce or brave warrior, from Latin leo ‘lion’.Italian : from a short form of the personal name Pantaleo.Jewish : from the personal name Leo (from Latin leo ‘lion’), borrowed from Christians as an equivalent of Hebrew Yehuda (see Leib 3).English : from the Old French personal name Leon ‘lion’ (see Lyon 2).Spanish : variant or derivative of the personal name Leon.Dutch : from Latin leo ‘lion’, applied either a nickname for a strong or fearless man or a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a lion; or alternatively from a personal name of the same derivation.German and Hungarian (Leó) : Latinized form of Löwe (see Loewe).
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English (Warwickshire) unexplained.
English (Warwickshire) unexplained. : unexplained. Probably a variant of Ligons.English (Warwickshire) unexplained. : alternatively possibly a variant of Higgins due to misdivision of some such name as Al Higgins.
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English
English : of uncertain origin. Reaney gives it as a variant of Mangnall, which he derives from Old French mangonelle, a war engine for throwing stones. It may alternatively be identical in origin with the German name in 2 below, but there is no evidence of its introduction to Britain as a personal name by the Normans, which is normally the case for English surnames derived from Continental Germanic personal names.German and French : from a Germanic personal name Managwald, composed of the elements manag ‘much’ + wald ‘rule’.
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English (Suffolk) of uncertain derivation;
English (Suffolk) of uncertain derivation; : of uncertain derivation; perhaps from a reduced form of the personal name Dominicus (see Dominick).English (Suffolk) of uncertain derivation; : alternatively, as Reaney proposes, it may be from the Breton personal name Menguy, a compound of men ‘stone’ + ki ‘dog’.
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English
English : probably a variant of Lothrop. Alternatively, it may be a habitational name from Layerthorpe in York, which is named from Old Norse leirr ‘clay’ or leira ‘clayey place’ + þorp ‘outlying farmstead’.
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English
English : from the Middle English personal name Kit, a pet form of Christopher.English : metonymic occupational name for a maker or seller of wooden tubs and pails made of staves held together by a hoop, Middle English kitte.English : perhaps from Middle High German kīt ‘offshoot’, ‘sprout’, applied as a nickname for a junior member of a family; alternatively it may be from the old personal name Giddo.
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English (Hampshire)
English (Hampshire) : of uncertain origin. It could be from a pet form of a Middle English female personal name, Mab(be) (see Mabbitt). Alternatively, it may be an altered form of Mowbray.French : from the personal name Amable (from Latin Amabilis meaning ‘loveable’).
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English
English : of uncertain origin. it may be a habitational name from an unidentified place (there is a Mayhall Farm in Buckinghamshire, but it is not clear whether the family name is derived from the farm name or vice versa). Alternatively it may be a variant of Mayall, which is itself a variant of Male.
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Altered spelling of German Dingle.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Tüngler, a habitational name for someone from Tunglen near Oldenburg (Lower Saxony); or alternatively a topographic name for someone living on a tongue-shaped piece of land, f
Altered spelling of German Dingle.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Tüngler, a habitational name for someone from Tunglen near Oldenburg (Lower Saxony); or alternatively a topographic name for someone living on a tongue-shaped piece of land, from Middle Low German tungle ‘tongue’.English : habitational name, possibly from Tingley in West Yorkshire, named from Old English þing ‘meeting’, ‘assembly’ + hlÄw ‘mound’. However, this is a predominantly southern name, associated chiefly with Sussex and Kent, which suggests that a different, unidentified source may be involved.
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
Girl/Female
English
Joyful. Abbreviation of Abigail. Gael is a term for descendants of the ancient Celts in Scotland;...
Boy/Male
Bengali, Hindu, Indian, Kashmiri, Sanskrit
One who Serves Krishna
Girl/Female
Hindu
Goddess
Girl/Female
Muslim
Pilgrimage to makkah
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Not Cold; Hot; Cloud; Water; Traveller
Girl/Female
Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Telugu
Enchanting
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English (South Yorkshire)
English (South Yorkshire) : variant spelling of Paramore.
Boy/Male
Indian
God
Girl/Female
African, Arabic, Australian, Celebrity, Greek, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Lebanese, Muslim, Parsi
Sunrise; A Star; Princess
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English and Irish
English and Irish : variant spelling of Lynam.
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
THYROCOPA ALTERNA
v. i.
To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains.
a.
Alternate; reciprocal.
a.
Disjunctive; as, an alternative conjunction.
adv.
In the manner of alternatives, or that admits the choice of one out of two things.
n.
The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
imp. & p. p.
of Alternate
n.
A greenish chloritic mineral common in certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as a result of alternation.
n.
A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.
a.
Designating the members in a series, which regularly intervene between the members of another series, as the odd or even numbers of the numerals; every other; every second; as, the alternate members 1, 3, 5, 7, etc. ; read every alternate line.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Alternate
v. i.
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
adv.
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
n.
The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
n.
Alternateness; alternation.
n.
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
adv.
By alternation; when, in a proportion, the antecedent term is compared with antecedent, and consequent.
n.
Either of two things or propositions offered to one's choice. Thus when two things offer a choice of one only, the two things are called alternatives.
n.
The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
n.
The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being followed by turns; alternate succession, performance, or occurrence; as, the alternation of day and night, cold and heat, summer and winter, hope and fear.
v. t.
Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.