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binomen
(Biology, taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
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taxonomic name
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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.
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trinomial name
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scientific epithet
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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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binomial-name
(Biology, taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: a generic name and a specific name.
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  • The horns, usually present in both sexes, are small and straight, situated far back on the forehead; and between them rises the crest-like tuft of hair from which the genus takes its scientific name.

  • In 1783 Boddaert printed at Utrecht a Table des planches enlumineez, 9 in which he attempted to refer every species of bird figured in that extensive series to its proper Linnaean genus, and to assign it a scientific name if it did not already possess one.

  • The division seems to have been instituted by this author a couple of years earlier in the second edition of his Handbuch der Naturgeschichte (a work not seen by the present writer), but not then to have received a scientific name.

  • The services rendered by Nicot in spreading a knowledge of the plant have been commemorated in the scientific name of the genus Nicotiana.

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