common name
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English
Noun
common name (plural common names)
- (taxonomy) The name by which an organism or group of organisms is known to the general public.
- Synonym: vernacular name
- Hypernym: alias
- Coordinate terms: scientific name, taxonomic name
- Near-synonym: trivial name
- 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
- From the point of view of biology, a bird has both a scientific name and a common name.
- (chemistry) A name that unambiguously identifies a substance but is not the IUPAC systematic name.
- Coordinate terms: trivial name, vernacular name; systematic name
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, name.
Translations
a name by which an organism is known to the general public
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