specific name
(in binomial nomenclature) the second part, always lowercased, of an animal species’ scientific name, but not applicable to plant species: for example, the species Sciurus carolinensis is a squirrel, as all squirrels belong to the genus Sciurus, but it is the specific name carolinensis that identifies the particular species, which is the eastern gray squirrel.
Origin of specific name
1- Also called specific epithet .
Words Nearby specific name
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How to use specific name in a sentence
Pegasus is the name of a software exploit product created and sold by an Israeli outfit called the NSO group, and “FORCEDENTRY” is the more specific name of the vulnerability.
You need to protect yourself from zero-click attacks | Shira Feder | September 18, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn our teaching, water was given to us, and it has specific prayers and a specific name and water has a song.
Many cultures even have a specific name for the ghoulish occurrence.
Its specific name is derived from its habit of covering itself with a coating of earth, and so becoming inconspicuous.
Our British Snails | John William HorsleyThe specific name recalls that gold and silver paint used to be sold in these shells (or marine mussels) for illuminating work.
Our British Snails | John William Horsley
Inornata is a very appropriate specific name for this tiny earth-brown bird, which is devoid of all kind of ornamentation.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India | Douglas DewarSo peculiar is it, that in Peru the ‘Colour de vicuña’ (vicuña colour) has become a specific name.
The Hunters' Feast | Mayne ReidThis cochineal lives by preference (at least, so it is supposed) on the evergreen oak (Quercus ilex), whence its specific name.
The Insect World | Louis Figuier
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