Amitabha

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, →DOI, pages 1269–1280.

English

Proper noun

Amitabha (usually uncountable, plural Amitabhas)

Alternative form of Amitābha.

[1] 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, →DOI, pages 1269–1280.

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