common name
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English
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]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
[edit ]a name by which an organism is known to the general public
- Chinese:
- Czech: obecné jméno
- Finnish: yleiskielinen nimi ; kansanomainen nimi
- French: nom vernaculaire (fr)
- German: Trivialname (de) m
- Japanese: 俗名 (ja) (ぞくめい, zokumei), 俗称 (ja) (ぞくしょう, zokushō)
- Kannada: ಇರುವಹೆಸರು (kn) (iruvahesaru)
- Korean: 속명(俗名) (ko) (songmyeong)
- Polish: nazwa zwyczajowa f, nazwa popularna f
- Portuguese: nome comum (pt) m, nome popular m, nome vernáculo m
- Russian: обихо́дное назва́ние n (obixódnoje nazvánije), наро́дное назва́ние n (naródnoje nazvánije), просторе́чное назва́ние n (prostoréčnoje nazvánije), общеупотреби́тельное назва́ние n (obščeupotrebítelʹnoje nazvánije), вернакуля́рное и́мя n (vernakuljárnoje ímja)
- Spanish: nombre común (es) m
- Swedish: trivialnamn (sv) n