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rook was given its binomial name by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in his Systema Naturae. The binomial is from Latin; Corvus means "raven", and frugilegus means for "fruit-gathering". It is derived from frux (oblique frug-), meaning "fruit", and legere, meaning "to pick". The English-language common name rook is ultimately derived from

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