scientific name

Scientific  

/ sī′ən-tĭf′ĭk /

1. A name used by scientists, especially the taxonomic name of an organism that consists of the genus and species. Scientific names usually come from Latin or Greek. An example is Homo sapiens, the scientific name for humans.

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Example Sentences

The possessive plural in the scientific name — the literal translation is “beetle of the Browns” — includes Anne Gust Brown, his wife and partner in everything Brown has done for the past two decades, including his unprecedented return to the governorship three decades after he’d left.

From Los Angeles Times

And it’s true you can ripen tomatoes, grow armloads of roses and enjoy your garden thoroughly without calling a single plant by its scientific name.

From Seattle Times

As it turns out, there’s a scientific name for the phenomenon of females expressing greater interest in males who already have a partner — particularly a very attractive one — in both animals and humans: mate copying.

From New York Times

Also known by the scientific name Carassius auratus, goldfish can live to be 25 years old, weigh as much as four pounds and measure well over a foot long.

From Seattle Times

Though each species has a unique binomial scientific name, such as Lymantria dispar, many are better known by their common names.

From New York Times