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* In [[Mercedes Lackey]] and James Mallory's ''[[The Enduring Flame Trilogy]]'', there are shotors, which from the description sounds like they are camels.
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* "Daggits" from [[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|the original ''Battlestar Galactica'']] were dogs. Amusingly, many people only think of Muffet, the robotic replacement for a daggit, when they hear the word "daggit", but it applied first to normal dogs.
** They also had their own words for time units ([[Unit Confusion|micron]], centon, yahren).
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** It might not have been so much Earth and the sun as it was some other world and the sun. Science does tend to provide very specific requirements for life to exist on a particular world, so theoretically it's not impossible that these units of measurement originated from a planet in a relatively similar position to its own sun as Earth is to its own. Also from a practicality standpoint, especially once various species started getting together and space travel became a regular part of this civilization, it makes sense to find a very specific means of measuring time since you can't use the position of the sun like you would on Earth, so an approximation of the average time a planet takes to complete a circle around its sun seems like a reasonable way of measuring a year.
** More [http://www.theshadowdepository.co.uk/rpg/fudge/farscape/f-fs_lexicon.htm here].
* Particularly in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise, alien plants, animals and foodstuffs tend to have names following the pattern , such as "Romulan ale", "Aldebaran whiskey", "Altarian chowder", "Delovian souffle", etc. Klingon stuff gets more detail, because they have their own language, but they still have blood pie. Diseases get the same treatment; for instance, "Rigelian fever". Alternatively words can be rendered Startrekky by the addition of a prefix: not mere [[wikipedia:Polycythemia|polycythemia]], but ''xeno''polycythemia; not common-or-garden [[wikipedia:Triticale|triticale]], but [[Star Trek/Recap/S2/E15 The Trouble With Tribbles|''quadro''triticale]].
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{{quote|'''Barris:''' Quadrotriticale is not wheat, Captain. I wouldn't expect you or Mr. Spock to know about such things, but quadrotriticale is a rather --
'''Spock:''' Quadrotriticale is a high-yield grain, a four-lobed hybrid of wheat and rye. A perennial, also, I believe. Its root grain, triticale, can trace its ancestry back to 20th century Canada-
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