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Little crumb
Two names for the same organism, both of them about being broken.
False colour
The pigment that makes diatoms golden is named, if you follow it far enough, after eye makeup.
Stitched together
A seam, a suture, an epic poem and a slit in a shell, all from the same verb.
False friend
A genus named for looking like something else, and a poison named after a folk remedy.