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why would cereals be worse than precious stones? :)



From single consonants, to animals, I don't know many languages with "real" names.

Personally big fan of gemstones.


fauna: python, pony

flora: rye, elm

fungi: rust

geology?: ruby, perl, crystal


> fungi: rust

Um, rust is an iron oxide, not a fungi.



Apparently "Rust is named after a fungus that is robust, distributed, and parallel."

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16503989




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