Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trinomen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tri-nomen
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A scientific name at the rank of subspecies: an expansion of a binomial name (a genus and a species) combined with the name of the subspecies; for example Anopheles gigas formosus or Homo sapiens sapiens.

Example Sentences

"The subspecies (trinomen) is the only infraspecific taxon so recognized by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature... However, the category of subspecies has not been widely used in entomology, because, in most cases, the level of population differentiation within a species is not clearly determined and subspecies populations are difficult to identify."

Inflected Forms

trinomina (plural)

Phrases

binomial name

Frequently Paired Words

binomen binomial name

Synonyms

ternary name three-part name trinomial name

Questions

What does trinomen mean?: A scientific name at the rank of subspecies: an expansion of a binomial name (a genus and a species) combined with the name of the subspecies; for example Anopheles gigas formosus or Homo sapiens sapiens.

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