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Magna

Magna is an inflected form of the Latin word magnus, 'great, large, vast, big, mighty', with cognates throughout the Indo-European languages, including English many and mega (the latter a doublet via Ancient Greek μέγας (mégas)). It appears in many names and titles, including:

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Where it lives

Recorded sightings

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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1554076.