Amitabha
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See also: Amitābha
Translingual
Etymology
See 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”.[1]
Proper noun
†Amitabha n
- A taxonomic genus within the order Galliformes – ancient birds in North America dating to the Middle Eocene, only one species of which (Amitabha urbsinterdictensis) is known.
Hypernyms
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Reptilia – class; Aves – subclass; Neognathae – infraclass; Galloanseri – superorder; Galliformes – order
References
Amitabha (bird) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Amitabha at Paleobiology Database
- ^ Bonnie E. Gulas-Wroblewski, Anton F.-J. Wroblewski (2003 November) “A Crown-group Galliform Bird from the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation of Wyoming”, in Palaeontology, volume 46, number 6, , pages 1269–1280.
English
Proper noun
Amitabha (usually uncountable, plural Amitabhas)
- Alternative form of Amitābha.