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Erinn Hayes

Erinn Hayes (Alexandra Erinn Hayes, née Carter; born 1976, San Francisco) is an American actress and comedian known for Dr. Lola Spratt on Childrens Hospital and as Kevin James's wife on Kevin Can Wait.

Erinn Muller

Erinn Muller is a coral reef scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, who studies coral disease, resilience, and restoration on Florida's Coral Reef.

Erinn Westbrook

Erinn Westbrook (Erinn Veronica Westbrook, born 1988) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and model; Harvard graduate and former MTV VJ known for Tabitha Tate on Riverdale, Bree on Glee, Magnolia Barnard on Insatiable, and Adaku Eze on The Resident.

Erinnerung an die Marie A.

"Erinnerung an die Marie A." ("Remembering Marie A.") is a lyric love poem by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1920 and first published in 1927 in his first collection, Hauspostille.

Erinyes (ρινύες)

The Erinyes (Ἐρινύες), or Furies, Greek goddesses of vengeance punishing kin-murder, perjury, and unfilial conduct; worshipped at Athens as Semnai Theai and Eumenides, with an Areopagus sanctuary and wineless libations.

Erio Tosatti

Erio Tosatti, born 1943, is an Italian condensed matter theorist who founded and led the condensed matter theory group at SISSA in Trieste and won the 2018 Enrico Fermi Prize.

Eriobotrya

Eriobotrya (loquat genus) is a Rosaceae genus of evergreen trees native from the Himalaya to Taiwan and western Malesia, with about 36 species; its type species Eriobotrya japonica is the loquat fruit tree, and its merger into Rhaphiolepis remains disputed.

Eriochrome Black T

Eriochrome Black T (EBT) is an azo dye used as a metallochromic indicator, most notably in EDTA complexometric titrations of water hardness, changing from red to blue at the endpoint.

Eriococcidae

Eriococcidae, the felt scales or eriococcid scales, is a family of about 560 species of plant-feeding scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea), fourth largest in the group, most diverse in the Southern Hemisphere, and shown by DNA studies to be non-monophyletic.

Eriogonum

Eriogonum, wild buckwheats, is a North American genus of about 256 species in Polygonaceae, ranging from Alaska to northern Mexico, centered in California, with many rare soil specialists and restoration-used shrubs.

Eriophorum

Eriophorum (cottongrass) is a Linnaean 1753 genus of Holarctic sedges in Cyperaceae, native to subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere bogs and tundra, with cottony white to rusty-red bristle heads; E. vaginatum indicates deep peat.

Eriophorum vaginatum

Eriophorum vaginatum (tussock cottongrass, hare's tail) is a tussock-forming perennial sedge of subarctic and temperate Northern Hemisphere peatlands and tundra, a methane conduit and foundation species; single-spikelet, inflated sheath, stems to 60 cm.

Eriophyidae

Eriophyidae, gall mites, are the largest family of eriophyoid mites: about 200 µm long, four-legged, plant-feeding pests that induce galls, with roughly 3,790 described species and high host specificity.

Eriophyoidea

Eriophyoidea, gall mites or four-legged mites, is a superfamily of tiny (about 200 μm) worm-like plant-feeding acariform mites with two pairs of legs, over 5000 species in three families, major crop pests and virus vectors, likely sister to Nematalycidae.

Eriosh Petroglyphs

The Eriosh Petroglyphs are an open-air rock-art site on Socotra island's north coast, Yemen, first recorded in 1834 and known for carved feet, crosses, and disputed script-like inscriptions.

Eriosyce curvispina

Eriosyce curvispina, also placed as Neoporteria or Horridocactus curvispinus, is a globular cactus endemic to central Chile. A 2024 molecular revision split the broad species complex into nine endemic species and assessed E. curvispina as Vulnerable.

Eriq La Salle

Eriq La Salle (Erik Ki La Salle, born 1962) is an American actor, director, producer, and novelist known for Dr. Peter Benton on ER, TV directing on Chicago P.D. and Law & Order, and the Martyr Maker thriller novels.

Eris (dwarf planet)

Eris is a dwarf planet in the scattered disk beyond Neptune and the most massive known. Its 2005 discovery led the IAU to reclassify Pluto in 2006.

Eris (mythology)

Eris (Ἔρις), Greek goddess of strife and discord, Roman Discordia; daughter of Nyx in Hesiod, sister of Ares in Homer, mother of personified evils, and thrower of the Apple of Discord that led to the Trojan War.

Eris Drew

Eris Drew is an American DJ and producer from Chicago known for an all-vinyl, trance-inflected style of ecstatic house and for co-founding the T4T LUV NRG label with Octo Octa.

Eris Exchange

Eris Exchange is a Chicago-based exchange founded in 2010 by five proprietary trading firms to trade cash-settled futures replicating over-the-counter interest rate swaps, cleared through CME Clearing.

Eris Lifesciences

Eris Lifesciences is an Ahmedabad-based Indian pharmaceutical company founded in 2007 by Amit Bakshi, selling branded formulations for chronic therapies and ranking 20th in the Indian Pharmaceutical Market.

Erishti-Aya

Erishti-Aya, also known as Erišti-Aya, was an Old Babylonian naditu of the god Shamash at Sippar and a daughter of the king of Mari, known from eight emotive letters to her father.

Erishum I

Erishum I (Erišum I) was the 33rd king of Assyria, reigning around 1975–1935 BC, the earliest Assyrian king fixed by dated eponym lists, who greatly expanded trade colonies in Anatolia.

Erishum II

Erishum II, also known as Erišum II, was a king of Assyria in the early second millennium BCE, the last ruler of his dynasty before Šamši-Adad I took the throne.

Erislandy Alvarez

Erislandy Alvarez Borges, Cuban boxer, Olympic gold medalist at 63.5 kg, Paris 2024, beating Sofiane Oumiha; world silver 2023 and bronze 2025; pro record 6-1 with a 2026 KO loss to Jose Nunez.

Erislandy Lara

Erislandy Lara (Erislandy Lara Santoya), "The American Dream", Cuban-born American southpaw boxer born 1983 in Guantanamo; 2005 amateur world champion, defected 2007, WBA champion at 154 and 160 pounds.

Eristalinae

Eristalinae is the largest subfamily of hoverflies (Syrphidae), with nine tribes including Eristalini and Milesiini; known for rat-tailed maggots and bee or wasp mimicry, but molecular data show it is paraphyletic.

Eristalis

Eristalis (drone flies) is a genus of about 100 Holarctic hoverflies (Syrphidae) whose larvae are rat-tailed maggots; Eristalis tenax, the drone fly, is a honeybee-mimicking pollinator now reared commercially.

Eristalis tenax

Eristalis tenax, the drone fly (larva: rat-tailed maggot), is a hover fly that mimics the honey bee; its aquatic larva breathes through a siphon up to 15 cm long and lives in sewage-rich water.