The study aims to characterise folk taxonomy: classification, naming, criteria, to identify …

• Abstract
• Background
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgment
• References
• Table 1
• Table 2
• Table 3
• Table 4
• Table 5
• Table 6
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• Table 8
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• Table 11
• Figures

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