Comfrey also has medicinal properties, as its folk name "knitbone" suggests.
The Catalan press are saying La Roja are really an extension of Blaugrana: the folk name for Barcelona.
The insects were harvested shortly before the female larvae reached maturity, i.e. in late June, usually around Saint John the Baptist's day (June 24), hence the dye's folk name, Saint John's blood.
Learn science's name, one of countless folk names, or make up your own.
Folk names for the blackcap often refer to its most obvious plumage feature (black-headed peggy, King Harry black cap and coal hoodie) or to its song, as in the "nightingale" names above.
Old names for the garden warbler, such as strawsmear, small straw and haychat, are often derived from its choice of nesting material, although the commonest of the English folk names was "pettychaps".
The petrel's reputation led to the old name of witch, although the commonest of the folk names is Mother Carey's Chicken, a name also used for storm petrels in general in the UK and USA from at least 1767.
Most rails are secretive wetland birds that have made little cultural impression, but as a formerly common farmland bird with a loud nocturnal call that sometimes led to disturbed sleep for rural dwellers, the corn crake has acquired a variety of folk names and some commemoration in literature.
The yamanba were also well represented, women fashioned after a Japanese folk figure whose name translates roughly as "monster mountain woman".
But from April onwards, as the air temperature rises, these beautiful falcons rise up again, amply justifying their wonderful folk-name, the windhover, made famous by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.
"I don't know if we've ever had the kind of turnover we've had this spring," Andy Pettitte said in the postgame clubhouse, with strange folks named Francisco and Boesch, Overbay and Warren, passing by his old, familiar corner.
