species name
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.78 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).
Example Sentences
- "Meronyms: genus name, generic name, generic epithet; specific epithet, species epithet, specific name"
- "Every animal that has been described by scientists has a scientific name, which consists of both a genus and species name. [...] The genus name is capitalized and given first, and the species name is given next [...]"
- "According to this system, each organism, whether plant or animal, bears two names : the first is generic name and second is the species name. [...] For example, the scientific name of modern man is Homo sapiens sapiens, where Homo is the generic name, and sapiens is the species name."