Scientific-name synonyms
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taxonomic name
trinomen
(Taxonomy, zoology) A scientific name at the rank of subspecies: a binomial name combined with the name of the subspecies; for example Homo sapiens sapiens.
trinomial name
scientific epithet
binomial-nomenclature
(Biology, taxonomy) The scientific system of naming each species of organism with a Latinized name in two parts; the first is the genus, and is written with an initial capital letter; the second is some specific epithet that distinguishes the species within the genus. By convention, the whole name is typeset in italics. The genus part is often abbreviated to its initial letter e.g. H. sapiens for Homo sapiens
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Find another word for scientific-name. In this page you can discover 7 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for scientific-name, like: binomen, binomial-name, taxonomic name, trinomen, trinomial name, scientific epithet and binomial-nomenclature.