Edited sentence: For example the African hippo was called "river horse" by the Greek, or the elephant was called by the Roman the "Lucanian cow".For example, 1) Spanish called the pineapple, "piña", the same word they used for the conifer cone, 2) the French named the potato, "pomme de terre" (apple of the earth), or 3) the northern Europeans called the maize, "corn/korn", from the Old English, Old High German & Old Norse, "korn" which meant cereal, such as oats, rye or wheat.It could also be taken into consideration that, as "LDS scholars frequently point out, the pervasive historical practice of naming unfamiliar specier after familiar ones".Similarly when the Europeans encountered the American agricultural species they used familiar names