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Nimikkokasvi / Nimikkolintu

English translation: Designated official plant/Designated official bird

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Finnish term or phrase:Nimikkokasvi / Nimikkolintu
English translation:Designated official plant/Designated official bird
Entered by: Desmond O'Rourke

17:43 Feb 15, 2005
Finnish to English translations [PRO]
Government / Politics
Finnish term or phrase: Nimikkokasvi / Nimikkolintu
Suomalaisen kunnan tai kaupungin nimikkokasvi ja nimikkolintu
Bernd Lüecke
Finland
Local time: 06:46
designated official plant/designated official bird
Explanation:
Where a church is concerned (nimikkokirkko), we would say dedicated to a saint or Our Lady. For a municipality, you could say designated official
plant of the municipality in question: the capercaillie (wood grouse) is the designated official bird of Central Finland, for example.

www.finnishtrans.com

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Note added at 1 day 5 hrs 33 mins (2005-02-16 23:17:01 GMT)
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I did. Google yields 3,880,000 cases of \"designated official\" in 0.37 s.
Whether what is designated is a language, a bird, a plant or whatever is of little consequence. In the U.S. as you probably know, such birds are more often called State Birds, the Cardinal being the State bird of VA.
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Desmond O'Rourke
United States
Local time: 23:46
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28 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
designated official plant/designated official bird


Explanation:
Where a church is concerned (nimikkokirkko), we would say dedicated to a saint or Our Lady. For a municipality, you could say designated official
plant of the municipality in question: the capercaillie (wood grouse) is the designated official bird of Central Finland, for example.

www.finnishtrans.com

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Note added at 1 day 5 hrs 33 mins (2005-02-16 23:17:01 GMT)
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I did. Google yields 3,880,000 cases of \"designated official\" in 0.37 s.
Whether what is designated is a language, a bird, a plant or whatever is of little consequence. In the U.S. as you probably know, such birds are more often called State Birds, the Cardinal being the State bird of VA.



    Reference: http://media.keskisuomalainen.fi/luontokuvat/talvilinnut/met...
Desmond O'Rourke
United States
Local time: 23:46
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 23

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Auri Paajanen: All in all, 100% correct answer.
5 mins
  -> Marjut's explanation is misleading because no municipality is named after the bird or plant (unless it has the same name, but that is another issue).
agree  Anu Carroll: I see the argument for using "designated," but it doesn't seem to be used much. For examples of usage, try Google search of "official bird of" vs. "designated official bird of."
7 hrs
  -> Yes, but the meaning is that the bird or plant was officially designated as such.
neutral  Torben AXELSEN: see even the facts on Kainuu's regional bird, fish, flour, stone at http://www.kainuu.fi/index.php?mid=2_24_269&la=fi
1 day 15 hrs
  -> It's a great website and "regional" is correct. Designated is added where the object has been officially designated as such.
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