单词 | nomenclatural |
释义 | nomenclaturaladj. Of or relating to nomenclature; esp. of or relating to the assignment of names. Cf. nomenclatorial adj., nomenclatory adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > nomenclature or terminology > [adjective] terminological1773 nomenclatural1803 orismological1826 nomenclative1831 nomenclatory1875 orismologic1882 nomenclatorial1883 1803 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 53 Having devised the most superlative specimen of nomenclatural absurdity. 1845 Amer. Rev. Oct. 406 Science will be more nobly served, and more rapidly advanced than by ardent efforts to establish either theoretical systems or nomenclatural schools. 1895 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 22 323 In some respects nomenclatural reform will escape in botany the difficulties that formerly beset it in zoology. 1937 N. N. Puckett in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 167/1 The enticement may have been the ceremony [of baptism] rather than a delusion of nomenclatural grandeur. 1961 G. G. Simpson Princ. Animal Taxon. i. 29 Personal preferences and emphases also frequently affect rearrangements of supraspecific taxa..although this is not an important cause of nomenclatural change. 1993 New Yorker 20 Sept. 67/1 In 1989, after several years of nomenclatural debate, the bacterium that Warren and Marshall discovered was finally named Helicobacter pylori. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1803 |
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