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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
See also
- systematic name
- common name
- vernacular name
- binomial name
- trivial name
- common or garden