Translations for wastebin in the English»Spanish Dictionary

wastebasket [ˈweɪstˌbɑ:skɪt, Am -ˌbæskət] N Am, wastebin [ˈweɪstbɪn] N Brit

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Unplug your toaster, pull out the crumb tray, empty the crumbs into the wastebin, wipe the tray and return to the toaster. www.express.co.uk

Modern authors generally are reserved about uniting all cormorants in one wastebin genus, but no general revision has been published that has any phylogenetic merit. en.wikipedia.org

That genus, in the loose circumscription, eventually became a sort of wastebin taxon. en.wikipedia.org

The latter family had for most of its existence served as perhaps the ultimate wastebin taxon on the history of ornithology. en.wikipedia.org

The exact delimitation, and the internal systematics, are a matter of debate; for long this group was used as a wastebin taxon to hold any fireflies with insufficiently resolved relationships. en.wikipedia.org

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