>>27527739Okay, here. I don't really like it either, but misnomer shit like this is way too prevalent around the world.
In Danish, we call carrots "gulrod" which means yellow root, despite whatever color it actually is.
In English, Sunspiders are called so, despite not being spiders at all! People confuse mosquito hawks with craneflies, sweetpotatoes and yams both are just called the former.
Oh, animals is only what counts? Fox is a broad term with many species, but it's not a genus either. In the same way Germanic languages take that name after the extant geo-area, Sandshrew might the name given to those first encountered in earthet, but maintained broadness through assimilation, rather than ideological adaptation.
Adaptation vs. assimilation is pretty common, and a great example is watching kids call like, horses cows because they learned cow first. We as adults do it, too!
