taxonomic name
English
Noun
taxonomic name (plural taxonomic names)
- (biology) A name, Latin in form, used to identify, in principle unambiguously, an organism (or group of organisms), formerly usually based solely on shared morphological feature, now usually on hypothesized common evolutionary descent.
- Synonym: scientific name
References
- Taxonomy (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “taxonomic name”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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