nominotypical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of a subspecies: nominate, having a name which repeats the species name, designating that it represents the originally described population.
adj
Of a subgenus or other infrageneric taxon: having a name which repeats the genus name, indicating that it includes the type species. For older botanical subgeneric and sectional names, it is sometimes prefixed with Eu-.
Example Sentences
- "Motacilla alba alba is the nominotypical subspecies of the white wagtail (Motacilla alba)."
- "Four species of the nominotypical subgenus are positively recorded from America north of Mexico... [referring to Physonota (Physonota) arizonae and three other species]"