单词 | specific epithet |
释义 | > as lemmasspecific epithet 5. Of or pertaining to, connected with, etc., a distinct species of animals or plants. specific epithet (chiefly Botany and Microbiology), the second (adjectival) element in the Latin name of a species according to the binomial system, which follows the generic name and serves to distinguish a species from others in the same genus; specific name, (a) (now chiefly Zoology) = specific epithet at sense A. 5 above; (b) (now chiefly Botany and Microbiology), the Latin name of a species, which in the binomial system comprises a generic name and a specific epithet. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > name of species specific name1753 typonym1884 tautonym1896 combination1901 the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [adjective] > species or sub-species > relating to specific1753 specifical1762 the world > life > biology > taxonomy > [noun] > name of species > second element of specific name1905 specific epithet1906 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The more accurate of the modern naturalists have..set about the reformation of the specific names of things. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) But as this holds in all the genus, there can be no use made of it as a specific character. 1775 H. Rose Elem. Bot. 302 A Plant is said to be compleatly named when it has got both the generic and specific name. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. p. v Many of the Specific Characters..are entirely new. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 19 Specific names..often indicate the situation or the county where the plant is found naturally. 1866 C. Darwin Origin of Species (ed. 4) ii. 58 Such characters of course are not of specific value. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 147 Scarcely entitled to specific rank. 1871 Nature 20 July 221/1 The mistake Cotteau is accused of making of assigning to Desor instead of Agassiz the specific name of Pseudodiadema hemisphæricum is entirely unfounded. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 359 Thus one great cause of specific modification would be wanting. 1905 Règles Internat. Nomancl. Zool. (Congrès Internat. de Zool.) 31 A specific name becomes a subspecific name when the species so named becomes a subspecies. 1906 Internat. Rules Bot. Nomencl. 1905 47 When a..species is moved into another genus..the first specific epithet..must be retained. 1926 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1925 75 A species [of animal] is a community, or a number of related communities, whose distinctive morphological characters are..sufficiently definite to entitle it, or them, to a specific name. 1945 Rhodora XLVII. 274 Binomial nomenclature was not intended by Linnaeus to supersede the polynomial specific name. 1964 Internat. Code Zool. Nomencl. ii. 7 The name of a species consists of two words (binomen)..;..the first word is the generic name, the second word is the specific name. 1966 Internat. Code Bot. Nomencl. iii. 27 Tuber..was accompanied by binary specific names, e.g. Tuber cibarium, and is therefore admissible. 1966 Internat. Code Bot. Nomencl. iii. 30 The name of a species is a binary combination consisting of the name of the genus followed by a single specific epithet. 1970 Watsonia 8 156 The specific epithet racemosa is.. not applicable in the genus Amelanchier. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia II. 1019/2 Gaspard Bauhin, a Swiss botanist of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, designated plants by a generic and a specific name. 1982 K. Arms & P. S. Camp Biol. (ed. 2) xx. 310 Specific epithets..are adjectives, and the same one may be combined with different generic names and used for a number of unrelated organisms; for example, Erythronium americanum, the trout lily; Euarctos americanus, the American black bear. < as lemmas |
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