English Explanatory Dictionary

species name

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).
  2. specific epithet, species epithet, specific name

Word forms

species name species names

Synonyms

binomen binomial binomial name binominal binominal name dionym

Translations

German: Artname Hungarian: fajnév Norwegian Bokmål: artsnavn Norwegian Nynorsk: artsnamn Polish: nazwa binominalna Volapük: sotanem
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