Luria
Translingual edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
Luria f
- A taxonomic genus within the family Cypraeidae – certain sea snails.
Hypernyms edit
- (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Spiralia – superphylum; Mollusca – phylum; Gastropoda - class; Littorinimorpha - order; Cypraeoidea - superfamily; Cypraeidae - family; Lurinae - subfamily
Hyponyms edit
- (genus): Luria lurida - type species; Luria cinerea, Luria controversa, Luria gilvella, Luria isabella, Luria pulchra - other species
References edit
Luria (gastropod) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Cypraeidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Luria on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
English edit
Etymology edit
Variant of Loria.
Proper noun edit
Luria (plural Lurias)
- A surname from Hebrew.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Luria is the 40313th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 543 individuals. Luria is most common among White (82.87%) and Hispanic/Latino (16.02%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Luria”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 476.
Italian edit
Proper noun edit
Luria m or f by sense
- a surname
- Salvatore Luria, Italian microbiologist, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Medicine