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Amitabha
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Amitābha
Translingual
Etymology
See en Amitābha; named by the discoverers Bonnie Gulas-Wroblewski and Anton Wroblewski from the fact that the Amitābha Buddha “commonly adopts the form of a peacock when incarnated in the material world”.Bonnie E. Gulas-Wroblewski Anton F.-J. Wroblewski A Crown-group Galliform Bird from the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation of Wyoming Palaeontology November 2003 46 6 1269–1280 10.1046/j.0031-0239.2003.00340.x.
Proper noun
†1 n
genus order Galliformes ancient birds in North America dating to the Middle Eocene, only one species of which (Amitabha urbsinterdictensis species) is known
Hypernyms
genus
References
Amitabha (bird) Amitabha (bird)
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English
Proper noun
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en Amitābha.