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139 relations: Adjective, Alexander the Great, Allium, Aloe vera, Amabela, Amaranthus retroflexus, Amblyomma americanum, Ancient Greek, Annual Review of Entomology, Apposition, Archaea, Archibald Campbell (doctor), Aymara language, Bacteria, Bacteriology, Basionym, Bauhin, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Boa constrictor, Botanical name, Botanical nomenclature, Botany, Canis, Carl Alexander Clerck, Carl Linnaeus, Cf., Chalumna River, Charles Wallace Richmond, Clade, Common name, Critica Botanica, Cuban crow, Cultivated plant taxonomy, Cyanobacteria, Cyclamen hederifolium, Cyclocephala nodanotherwon, Dutch Birding, Dynastinae, Epicharis parasitica, Erythroxylum coca, Escherichia coli, Font, Form (zoology), Fossil, Gaspard Bauhin, Genitive case, Genus, Given name, Glossary of scientific naming, Grammatical gender, ... Expand index (89 more) »
- Biological nomenclature
- Neo-Latin terminology
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
See Binomial nomenclature and Adjective
Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
See Binomial nomenclature and Alexander the Great
Allium
Allium is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants with hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives.
See Binomial nomenclature and Allium
Aloe vera
Aloe vera is a succulent plant species of the genus Aloe.
See Binomial nomenclature and Aloe vera
Amabela
Amabela is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Amabela
Amaranthus retroflexus
Amaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed.
See Binomial nomenclature and Amaranthus retroflexus
Amblyomma americanum
Amblyomma americanum, also known as the lone star tick, the northeastern water tick, or the turkey tick, is a type of tick indigenous to much of the eastern United States and Mexico, that bites painlessly and commonly goes unnoticed, remaining attached to its host for as long as seven days until it is fully engorged with blood.
See Binomial nomenclature and Amblyomma americanum
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC.
See Binomial nomenclature and Ancient Greek
Annual Review of Entomology
The Annual Review of Entomology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about entomology, the study of insects.
See Binomial nomenclature and Annual Review of Entomology
Apposition
Apposition is a grammatical construction in which two elements, normally noun phrases, are placed side by side so one element identifies the other in a different way.
See Binomial nomenclature and Apposition
Archaea
Archaea (archaeon) is a domain of single-celled organisms.
See Binomial nomenclature and Archaea
Archibald Campbell (doctor)
Archibald Campbell (20 April 1805 – 5 November 1874) of the Bengal Medical Service (which became part the Indian Medical Service after 1857) was the first superintendent (1840-1862) of the sanatorium town of Darjeeling in north east India.
See Binomial nomenclature and Archibald Campbell (doctor)
Aymara language
Aymara (also Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes.
See Binomial nomenclature and Aymara language
Bacteria
Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.
See Binomial nomenclature and Bacteria
Bacteriology
Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them.
See Binomial nomenclature and Bacteriology
Basionym
In the scientific name of organisms, basionym or basyonym means the original name on which a new name is based; the author citation of the new name should include the authors of the basionym in parentheses. Binomial nomenclature and basionym are biological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and Basionym
Bauhin
The Bauhin family is a family of physicians and scientists.
See Binomial nomenclature and Bauhin
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives.
See Binomial nomenclature and Biodiversity Heritage Library
Boa constrictor
The boa constrictor (scientific name also Boa constrictor), also known as the common boa, is a species of large, non-venomous, heavy-bodied snake that is frequently kept and bred in captivity.
See Binomial nomenclature and Boa constrictor
Botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP).
See Binomial nomenclature and Botanical name
Botanical nomenclature
Botanical nomenclature is the formal, scientific naming of plants. Binomial nomenclature and Botanical nomenclature are biological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and Botanical nomenclature
Botany
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
See Binomial nomenclature and Botany
Canis
Canis is a genus of the Caninae which includes multiple extant species, such as wolves, dogs, coyotes, and golden jackals.
See Binomial nomenclature and Canis
Carl Alexander Clerck
Carl Alexander Clerck (1709 – 22 July 1765) was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist.
See Binomial nomenclature and Carl Alexander Clerck
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
See Binomial nomenclature and Carl Linnaeus
Cf.
The abbreviation cf. (short for either Latin confer or conferatur, both meaning 'compare') is used in writing to refer the reader to other material to make a comparison with the topic being discussed.
See Binomial nomenclature and Cf.
Chalumna River
The Chalumna River (Tyolomnqa) is a river in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
See Binomial nomenclature and Chalumna River
Charles Wallace Richmond
Charles Wallace Richmond (December 31, 1868 – May 19, 1932) was an American ornithologist.
See Binomial nomenclature and Charles Wallace Richmond
Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
See Binomial nomenclature and Clade
Common name
In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin. Binomial nomenclature and common name are biological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and Common name
Critica Botanica
Critica Botanica ("Critique of botany", Leiden, July 1737) was written by Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778).
See Binomial nomenclature and Critica Botanica
Cuban crow
The Cuban crow (Corvus nasicus) is a crow species native to the northern Caribbean.
See Binomial nomenclature and Cuban crow
Cultivated plant taxonomy
Cultivated plant taxonomy is the study of the theory and practice of the science that identifies, describes, classifies, and names cultigens—those plants whose origin or selection is primarily due to intentional human activity.
See Binomial nomenclature and Cultivated plant taxonomy
Cyanobacteria
Cyanobacteria, also called Cyanobacteriota or Cyanophyta, are a phylum of autotrophic gram-negative bacteria that can obtain biological energy via oxygenic photosynthesis.
See Binomial nomenclature and Cyanobacteria
Cyclamen hederifolium
Cyclamen hederifolium, the ivy-leaved cyclamen or sowbread, is a species of flowering plant in the family Primulaceae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Cyclamen hederifolium
Cyclocephala nodanotherwon
Cyclocephala nodanotherwon is a species of rhinoceros beetle in the scarab family.
See Binomial nomenclature and Cyclocephala nodanotherwon
Dutch Birding
Dutch Birding, originally subtitled Journal of the Dutch Birding Association,.
See Binomial nomenclature and Dutch Birding
Dynastinae
Dynastinae or rhinoceros beetles are a subfamily of the scarab beetle family (Scarabaeidae).
See Binomial nomenclature and Dynastinae
Epicharis parasitica
Epicharis parasitica, commonly known as yellow mahogany, is a species of rainforest tree in the family Meliaceae native to Taiwan, parts of Malesia, Papuasia, and northeast Queensland.
See Binomial nomenclature and Epicharis parasitica
Erythroxylum coca
Erythroxylum coca is one of two species of cultivated coca.
See Binomial nomenclature and Erythroxylum coca
Escherichia coli
Escherichia coliWells, J. C. (2000) Longman Pronunciation Dictionary.
See Binomial nomenclature and Escherichia coli
Font
In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface.
See Binomial nomenclature and Font
Form (zoology)
In zoology, the word "form" or "forma" (literally Latin for form) is a strictly informal term that is sometimes used to describe organisms.
See Binomial nomenclature and Form (zoology)
Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
See Binomial nomenclature and Fossil
Gaspard Bauhin
Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin (Casparus Bauhinus; 17 January 1560 – 5 December 1624), was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus.
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Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
See Binomial nomenclature and Genitive case
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
See Binomial nomenclature and Genus
Given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname.
See Binomial nomenclature and Given name
Glossary of scientific naming
This is a list of terms and symbols used in scientific names for organisms, and in describing the names.
See Binomial nomenclature and Glossary of scientific naming
Grammatical gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns.
See Binomial nomenclature and Grammatical gender
Grammatical number
In linguistics, grammatical number is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verb agreement that expresses count distinctions (such as "one", "two" or "three or more").
See Binomial nomenclature and Grammatical number
Harmonia axyridis
Harmonia axyridis is a large lady beetle or ladybug species that is most commonly known as the harlequin, Asian, or multicoloured Asian lady beetle.
See Binomial nomenclature and Harmonia axyridis
Homo
Homo is a genus of great ape that emerged from the genus Australopithecus and encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans) and a number of extinct species (collectively called archaic humans) classified as either ancestral or closely related to modern humans.
See Binomial nomenclature and Homo
Homonym (biology)
In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon.
See Binomial nomenclature and Homonym (biology)
House sparrow
The house sparrow (Passer domesticus) is a bird of the sparrow family Passeridae, found in most parts of the world.
See Binomial nomenclature and House sparrow
Huia (plant)
Huia is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Pragian or Siegenian, around). The genus was first described in 1985 based on fossil specimens from the Posongchong Formation, Wenshan district, Yunnan, China.
See Binomial nomenclature and Huia (plant)
Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
See Binomial nomenclature and Human
Hyacinthoides italica
Hyacinthoides italica, the Italian bluebell or Italian squill, is a spring-flowering bulbous perennial plant belonging to the family Asparagaceae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Hyacinthoides italica
Hybrid name
In botanical nomenclature, a hybrid may be given a hybrid name, which is a special kind of botanical name, but there is no requirement that a hybrid name should be created for plants that are believed to be of hybrid origin.
See Binomial nomenclature and Hybrid name
Infraspecific name
In botany, an infraspecific name is the scientific name for any taxon below the rank of species, i.e. an infraspecific taxon or infraspecies.
See Binomial nomenclature and Infraspecific name
International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN or ICNafp) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants, fungi and a few other groups of organisms, all those "traditionally treated as algae, fungi, or plants".
See Binomial nomenclature and International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants
International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) or Prokaryotic Code, formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB) or Bacteriological Code (BC), governs the scientific names for Bacteria and Archaea.
See Binomial nomenclature and International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) is a widely accepted convention in zoology that rules the formal scientific naming of organisms treated as animals.
See Binomial nomenclature and International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) authorizes and organizes the taxonomic classification of and the nomenclature for viruses.
See Binomial nomenclature and International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) describes itself as "a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and lycophytes." Coverage of plant names is best at the rank of species and genus.
See Binomial nomenclature and International Plant Names Index
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
See Binomial nomenclature and International Union for Conservation of Nature
Italic type
In typography, italic type is a cursive font based on a stylised form of calligraphic handwriting.
See Binomial nomenclature and Italic type
Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
See Binomial nomenclature and Java
Javan torrent frog
The Javan torrent frog (Wijayarana masonii) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Javan torrent frog
John Tradescant the Elder
John Tradescant the Elder (c. 1570s – 15–16 April 1638), father of John Tradescant the Younger, was an English naturalist, gardener, collector and traveller. On 18 June 1607 he married Elizabeth Day of Meopham in Kent, England. She had been baptised on 22 August 1586 and was the daughter of Jeames Day, a Vicar, also of Meopham.
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John Tradescant the Younger
John Tradescant the Younger (4 August 1608 – 22 April 1662), son of John Tradescant the Elder, was a botanist and gardener.
See Binomial nomenclature and John Tradescant the Younger
Joke
A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and well-defined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be interpreted literally.
See Binomial nomenclature and Joke
Large intestine
The large intestine, also known as the large bowel, is the last part of the gastrointestinal tract and of the digestive system in tetrapods.
See Binomial nomenclature and Large intestine
Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Latin declension
Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined—that is, have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number and gender.
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Latin grammar
Latin is a heavily inflected language with largely free word order.
See Binomial nomenclature and Latin grammar
List of authors of names published under the ICZN
This is a list of notable zoologists who have published names of new taxa under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and List of authors of names published under the ICZN
List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms.
See Binomial nomenclature and List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
List of organisms named after famous people
In biological nomenclature, organisms often receive scientific names that honor a person.
See Binomial nomenclature and List of organisms named after famous people
List of taxa named by anagrams
In the biological nomenclature codes, an anagram can be used to name a new taxon. Binomial nomenclature and List of taxa named by anagrams are biological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and List of taxa named by anagrams
Magnolia campbellii
Magnolia campbellii, or Campbell's magnolia, is a species of Magnolia that grows in sheltered valleys in the Himalaya from eastern Nepal, Sikkim and Assam, India, east to southwestern China (southern Xizang, Yunnan, southern Sichuan) and south to northern Myanmar.
See Binomial nomenclature and Magnolia campbellii
Magnolia hodgsonii
Magnolia hodgsonii (syn. Talauma hodgsonii), known in Chinese as gai lie mu is a species of Magnolia native to the forests of the Himalaya and southeastern Asia, occurring in Bhutan, southwestern China, Tibet, northeastern India, northern Myanmar, Nepal, and Thailand.
See Binomial nomenclature and Magnolia hodgsonii
Mathurin Jacques Brisson
Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.
See Binomial nomenclature and Mathurin Jacques Brisson
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
See Binomial nomenclature and Medieval Latin
Mongolian language
Mongolian is the principal language of the Mongolic language family that originated in the Mongolian Plateau.
See Binomial nomenclature and Mongolian language
Muilla
Muilla is a genus of monocots in the family Asparagaceae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Muilla
Nandina
Nandina domestica commonly known as nandina, heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo, is a species of flowering plant in the family Berberidaceae, native to eastern Asia from the Himalayas to Japan.
See Binomial nomenclature and Nandina
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
See Binomial nomenclature and Natural History Museum, London
Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin in; others, throughout.
See Binomial nomenclature and Neo-Latin
Nomenclature codes
Nomenclature codes or codes of nomenclature are the various rulebooks that govern the naming of living organisms. Binomial nomenclature and nomenclature codes are biological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and Nomenclature codes
Nominative case
In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.
See Binomial nomenclature and Nominative case
Old World sparrow
Old World sparrows are a group of small passerine birds forming the family Passeridae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Old World sparrow
Olive-backed pipit
The olive-backed pipit (Anthus hodgsoni) is a small passerine bird of the pipit (Anthus) genus, which breeds across southern, north central and eastern Asia, as well as in the north-eastern European Russia.
See Binomial nomenclature and Olive-backed pipit
Open nomenclature
Open nomenclature is a vocabulary of partly informal terms and signs in which a taxonomist may express remarks about their own material.
See Binomial nomenclature and Open nomenclature
Patella vulgata
Patella vulgata, common name the common limpet or common European limpet is a species of sea snail.
See Binomial nomenclature and Patella vulgata
Philosophia Botanica
Philosophia Botanica ("Botanical Philosophy", ed. 1, Stockholm & Amsterdam, 1751.) was published by the Swedish naturalist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) who greatly influenced the development of botanical taxonomy and systematics in the 18th and 19th centuries.
See Binomial nomenclature and Philosophia Botanica
Phlox drummondii
Phlox drummondii (commonly annual phlox or Drummond's phlox) is a flowering plant in the genus Phlox of the family Polemoniaceae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Phlox drummondii
PhyloCode
The International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature, known as the PhyloCode for short, is a formal set of rules governing phylogenetic nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and PhyloCode
Pierre Magnol
Pierre Magnol (8 June 1638 – 21 May 1715) was a French botanist.
See Binomial nomenclature and Pierre Magnol
Plantago media
Plantago media, known as the hoary plantain, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Plantago media
Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
See Binomial nomenclature and Presidencies and provinces of British India
Proper noun
A proper noun is a noun that identifies a single entity and is used to refer to that entity (Africa; Jupiter; Sarah; Walmart) as distinguished from a common noun, which is a noun that refers to a class of entities (continent, planet, person, corporation) and may be used when referring to instances of a specific class (a continent, another planet, these persons, our corporation).
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Pun
A pun, also known as a paranomasia in the context of linguistics, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.
See Binomial nomenclature and Pun
Quechuan languages
Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
See Binomial nomenclature and Quechuan languages
Red-breasted parakeet
The red-breasted parakeet (Psittacula alexandri) is a parrot native to Southeast Asia.
See Binomial nomenclature and Red-breasted parakeet
Rhododendron
Rhododendron (rhododendra) is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae).
See Binomial nomenclature and Rhododendron
Saichania
Saichania (Mongolian meaning "beautiful one") is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of Mongolia and China.
See Binomial nomenclature and Saichania
Scape (botany)
In botany, a scape is a peduncle arising from a subterranean or very compressed stem, with the lower internodes very long and hence few or no bracts except the part near the rachis or receptacle.
See Binomial nomenclature and Scape (botany)
Scientific terminology
Scientific terminology is the part of the language that is used by scientists in the context of their professional activities.
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Scilla
Scilla is a genus of about 30 to 80 species of bulb-forming perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Scilla
Scilla forbesii
Scilla forbesii, known as Forbes' glory-of-the-snow, is a bulbous perennial plant from west Turkey flowering in early spring.
See Binomial nomenclature and Scilla forbesii
Scilla sect. Chionodoxa
Scilla section Chionodoxa, known as glory-of-the-snow, is a small group of bulbous perennial flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Scilla sect. Chionodoxa
Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
See Binomial nomenclature and Species
Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
See Binomial nomenclature and Species description
Species Plantarum
Species Plantarum (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera.
See Binomial nomenclature and Species Plantarum
Specific name (zoology)
In zoological nomenclature, the specific name (also specific epithet, species epithet, or epitheton) is the second part (the second name) within the scientific name of a species (a binomen).
See Binomial nomenclature and Specific name (zoology)
Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
See Binomial nomenclature and Springer Science+Business Media
Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
See Binomial nomenclature and Subspecies
Surname
A surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family.
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Synonym (taxonomy)
The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.
See Binomial nomenclature and Synonym (taxonomy)
Systema Naturae
(originally in Latin written with the ligature æ) is one of the major works of the Swedish botanist, zoologist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) and introduced the Linnaean taxonomy.
See Binomial nomenclature and Systema Naturae
Tarchia
Tarchia (meaning "brainy one") is a genus of herbivorous ankylosaurid dinosaur from the late Cretaceous of Mongolia.
See Binomial nomenclature and Tarchia
Tautonym
A tautonym is a scientific name of a species in which both parts of the name have the same spelling, such as Rattus rattus. Binomial nomenclature and tautonym are biological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and Tautonym
Taxonomy (biology)
In biology, taxonomy is the scientific study of naming, defining (circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Binomial nomenclature and taxonomy (biology) are biological nomenclature and neo-Latin terminology.
See Binomial nomenclature and Taxonomy (biology)
Terete
Terete is a term in botany used to describe a cross section that is circular, or like a distorted circle, with a single surface wrapping around it.
See Binomial nomenclature and Terete
Thomas Drummond (botanist)
Thomas Drummond (1793 — March 1835), was a Scottish botanical collector.
See Binomial nomenclature and Thomas Drummond (botanist)
Tibetan antelope
The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (pronounced) is a medium-sized bovid native to the northeastern Tibetan plateau.
See Binomial nomenclature and Tibetan antelope
Tradescantia virginiana
Tradescantia virginiana, the Virginia spiderwort, is a species of flowering plant in the family Commelinaceae.
See Binomial nomenclature and Tradescantia virginiana
Trinomial nomenclature
In biology, trinomial nomenclature is the system of names for taxa below the rank of species. Binomial nomenclature and trinomial nomenclature are biological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and Trinomial nomenclature
Tyrannosaurus
Tyrannosaurus is a genus of large theropod dinosaur.
See Binomial nomenclature and Tyrannosaurus
Undescribed taxon
In taxonomy, an undescribed taxon is a taxon (for example, a species) that has been discovered, but not yet formally described and named.
See Binomial nomenclature and Undescribed taxon
Virus
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism.
See Binomial nomenclature and Virus
Virus classification
Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system similar to the classification systems used for cellular organisms.
See Binomial nomenclature and Virus classification
Werner Rothmaler
Werner Walter Hugo Paul Rothmaler (born 20 August 1908 in Sangerhausen, died 13 April 1962 in Leipzig) was a German botanist and from 1953 until 1962 head of the Institute for Agricultural Biology of the University of Greifswald.
See Binomial nomenclature and Werner Rothmaler
West Indian Ocean coelacanth
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) (sometimes known as gombessa, African coelacanth, or simply coelacanth) is a crossopterygian, one of two extant species of coelacanth, a rare order of vertebrates more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods than to the common ray-finned fishes.
See Binomial nomenclature and West Indian Ocean coelacanth
Xenos vesparum
Xenos vesparum is a parasitic insect species of the order Strepsiptera that are endoparasites of paper wasps in the genus Polistes (most commonly Polistes dominula) that was first described in 1793.
See Binomial nomenclature and Xenos vesparum
Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
See Binomial nomenclature and Yunnan
Zoology
ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.
See Binomial nomenclature and Zoology
10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae (Latin; the English title is A General System of Nature) is a book written by Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
See Binomial nomenclature and 10th edition of Systema Naturae
See also
Biological nomenclature
- -ase
- -bacter
- -monas
- Bacterial nomenclature
- Bacterial taxonomy
- Basionym
- Binomial nomenclature
- Botanical nomenclature
- Common name
- Gene nomenclature
- Genetypes
- HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee
- Incertae sedis
- International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature
- International System for Human Cytogenomic Nomenclature
- Kabat numbering scheme
- Linnaean taxonomy
- List of biological development disorders
- List of species named after the COVID-19 pandemic
- List of taxa named by anagrams
- New Biological Nomenclature
- Nomenclature codes
- Parataxonomy
- Phylogenetic nomenclature
- Tautonym
- Taxonomy (biology)
- Terminologia Histologica
- Trinomial nomenclature
- Zoological nomenclature
Neo-Latin terminology
- Binomial nomenclature
- Neoclassical compound
- Taxonomy (biology)
References
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