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The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
A trinomen is a name with three parts: generic name, specific name and subspecific name. The first two parts alone form the binomen or species name. All three names are typeset in italics, and only the first letter of the generic name is capitalised. No indicator of rank is included: in zoology, subspecies is the only rank below that of species.
Hydrides of the main group elements (groups 13–17) are given the base name ending with -ane, e.g. borane (B H 3), oxidane (H 2 O), phosphane (P H 3) (Although the name phosphine is also in common use, it is not recommended by IUPAC). The compound P Cl 3 would thus be named substitutively as trichlorophosphane (with chlorine "substituting ...
Marcus Terentius Varro wrote that the earliest Italians used simple names. [3] [non-primary source needed] Names of this type could be honorific or aspirational, or might refer to deities, physical peculiarities, or circumstances of birth. [1]
The word redrum (i.e., "red rum") is used this way for murder in the Stephen King novel The Shining (1977) and its film adaptation (1980). [11] Anadromes exist in other written languages as well, as can be seen, for example, in Spanish orar ↔ raro or French l'ami naturel ("the natural friend") ↔ le rut animal ("the animal rut").
Nickname names like Scottie, Lottie, Nori and Dolly are playful choices in this trend, along with novel word names like Wednesday, Echo, Posey and Blossom." For those who like to keep it sweet and ...
The following is a list of triple tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of three identical words (the generic name, the specific name and the subspecies have the same spelling). Such names are allowed in zoology , but not in botany , where the generic and specific epithets of a species must differ (though differences as small as one ...
A name is a label for any noun: names can identify a class or category of things; or a single thing, either uniquely or within a given context. Names are given, for example, to humans or any other organisms, places, products—as in brand names—and even to ideas or concepts. It is names as nouns that are the building blocks of nomenclature.