Torchwood (Amyris maritima), so named because of its fine properties as fuel, grows in southern Florida, sometimes reaching a height of forty feet and a diameter of one.
It was sonamed because it had been found on land belonging to Sir William Bagshawe, whose lady christened its chambers and grottos with some very queer names.
He was said to be so named because he bore some resemblance to Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia.
The favorite charger of Alexander the Great, so named because he was branded with a bull’s head.
Etym: [So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.
The Julian period was proposed by Scaliger, to remove or avoid ambiguities in chronological dates, and was so named because composed of Julian years.
So named because supposed to have its seat in the hypochondriac regions.
Melancholia (black bile) is named because an abundance of bile has been mixed with the dregs of black blood.
The genethliaci are so named because of their observance of natal days.
The testamentum ruptum is so named because it is made void through the birth of a posthumous child who is neither disinherited nor made an heir by name.
An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.
An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- sonamed because of its two large front teeth.
Oniscus, a name given to a species of codfish by the Greeks, so named because of their gray color.
Russula is so named because of its likeness in color to some species of the genus Russula.
This is a very small plant, resupinate, membranaceous, and it is so named because of the milk-white color underneath.
This spot is not far from Whooping Boy's Hollow, so named because of a boy who was killed by Indians, and because the rubbing of two trees there in a storm gave forth a noise like crying.
So named because supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, in Middlesex, Eng.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "named because" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
