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    Pedanius Dioscorides (Greek: Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης, Pedánios Dioskourídēs; c. 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist...
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    them. The five-volume work was written between 50 and 70 CE by Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician in the Roman army. It was widely read for more than...
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  • Pedanius Dioscorides (c. AD 40–90) was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, and botanist. Dioscorides or Dioscurides may also refer to: Dioscurides (nephew...
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  • Dioscorides (Greek: Διοσκουρίδης, Dioskourídēs; 3rd century BC) was a Greek epigrammatist of the Hellenistic period. Dioscorides seems, from the internal...
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  • Hibiscus dioscorides is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae. It is found only in Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. Miller, A...
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  • Dioscoride Lanza (born 24 April 1898) was an Italian racing driver. He entered 30 races between 1936 and 1955 – of which he started 24 – most of them in...
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    The Vienna Dioscurides or Vienna Dioscorides is an early 6th-century Byzantine Greek illuminated manuscript of an even earlier 1st century AD work, De...
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    Ampittia dioscorides, the common bush hopper or simply bush hopper, is a species of butterfly found in India, China, Indochina, Cambodia and on to Borneo...
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  • Pulicaria dioscorides is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is found only in Yemen. Its natural habitat is rocky areas. Miller...
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    derives from the title of a work by the Ancient Greek physician Pedanius Dioscorides in the 1st century AD, De materia medica, 'On medical material' (Περὶ...
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