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Mina may refer to:

Places

• Mina, Nuevo León, a municipality in Nuevo León, Mexico
• Mina, Iloilo, a municipality in Iloilo, Philippines
• Mina, Saudi Arabia
• Mina, California
• Mina, Nevada
• Mina, New York
• Mina, Portugal, a parish in Amadora, Portugal

Languages and peoples

• Mina language (Cameroon), a language in Africa
• Meenas or Mina, a caste and community in Rajasthan, India
• Gen language or Mina, the language of the Mina people
  • Mina people, an ethnic group of Togo

People

• Mina (singer) (born 1940), Italian singer
• Menes or Mina (fl. c. 3100 BCE), legendary Egyptian ruler
• Saint Menas or St. Mina (fl. 3rd century CE), Coptic religious leader
• Shim Mina or Mina (born 1972), Korean singer

Fictional characters

• Mina Harker is the main protagonist, and heroine in Bram Stoker's horror novel Dracula.
• Mina (Dragonlance), a herald of the One God in Dragonlance
• Minako Aino or Mina, Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon

Other uses

• Mina (given name), a given name (and list of people and characters with that name)
• Mina (surname), a surname (and list of people with that name)
• Mina (unit), a unit of weight
• Mina (TV series), a Korean drama
• Mina (drum), a Venezuelan drum

See also

• Mina Seyahi, Jumeirah, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Meena (disambiguation)
• Myna a bird
• Nina (disambiguation)

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From Wikitravel

Mina is the location of a temporary tented city used during the annual Islamic pilgrimage. It is located just east of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

For other places with the same name, see Mina (disambiguation).

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

Japanese

Proper noun

Mina (hiragana みな)

1. 美奈: Mina, a Japanese female given name

Norwegian

Proper noun

Mina

1. A female given name, short for Wilhelmina.

From Wikispecies

Taxonavigation

Classification System: APG II (down to family level)

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Cladus: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiospermae
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: core eudicots
Cladus: Asterids
Cladus: Euasterids I
Ordo: Solanales
Familia: Convolvulaceae
Subfamilia: Convolvuloideae
Genus: Ipomoea
Subgenus: I. subg. Quamoclit
Sectio: Ipomoea sect. Mina
Species: I. cholulensis - I. coccinea - I. cristulata - I. dubia - I. funis - I. hederifolia - I. lobata - I. ×multifida - I. neei - I. quamoclit - I. sloteri

Name

Ipomoea sect. Mina (Cerv.) Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. I. 472 1864.

Synonyms

Basionym

• Mina Cerv., Nov. Veg. Descr. 1: 3. 1824.

Heterotypic

• Quamoclit sect. Mina (Cerv.) House, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 36: 596. 1909.

References

• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. [1] (05 October 2009)