>>"uncle" covers at least three relatives which have separate names in other languages;
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>Do you mean like "great-uncle" et al?

No, just differentiating between father's brother, mother's brother, or spouses of parents' sisters. So we have three words there. Then a cousin is actually a brother/sister of {appropriate uncle/aunt term} - "sestra od ujaka" is mother's brother's daughter.

>"cherry" covers two species of fruit,
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>I know of only one, unless you mean cherry tomatoes.

The cherries and cherries, of course :).

AFAIK, sweet cherries and sour cherries don't cross-breed. We do have similar names for them - trešnje & višnje - but they are distinguished (and in Russian and Hungarian too, and IIRC in Romanian as well; someone may chime in for other languages).

>(btw, if the parrot fish had been discovered first, would a parrot be called a parrot-bird?)
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>>"remember" covers all of "memorize", "recall", "reminisce" and "forget not",
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>But you've just demo'd that we do have words for these different meanings!

So why don't you use them, why do you use "remember" for all of them? "Remember to remember the whole list, you'll have to remember it later".

>>I figure someone could get a PhD by just figuring what causes this sparsity in some areas and abundance in others.
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>And you're plumping for it, eh!

Nah, it'd become too serious and take the joy out of a hobby.