Rafinesque
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Rafinesque went on to publish formal descriptions of the fish, but attributed them to Audubon, and the prank was discovered in the 1870s.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2016
I’m entirely convinced that, as Rafinesque was with Audubon’s inventions, I’d be taken in by any of them.
From The Guardian ● May 3, 2016
The piece on Rafinesque ends up with an expression of passionate connection with the Frenchman's strange pantheism.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2012
JJS’s best subject is himself, and the line goes a little slack sometimes when he’s not in play, as in his historical essay on the naturalist Constantine Rafinesque.
From Time ● Oct. 27, 2011
It was Rafinesque who, amid all the privations of pioneer traveling, explored Kentucky in the early part of the nineteenth century, from Greenup on the east to McCracken County on the west.
From Stories of Old Kentucky by Martha Grassham Purcell
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