Specific name

(Nat. Hist.)

the name which, appended to the name of the genus, constitutes the distinctive name of the species; - originally applied by Linnæus to the essential character of the species, or the essential difference. The present specific name he at first called the trivial name.- Wharton.

specific name

the second of two names in a binominal indicating the name of the particular species in that genus, for example rubecula is the specific name of the robin Erithacus rubecula.

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