Other Examples
- "Wheels" for automobile
- "Keel" or "sail" for ship
- "Head" for individual farm animal, such as "twelve head of cattle" for "twelve cows, bulls, etc."
- "Big Ben" for Elizabeth Tower
- England for the United Kingdom
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