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Wiktionary
- n. zoology In zoological nomenclature, a name which has appeared in print but has not yet been formally published by the standards of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
Etymologies
- Latin nomen (name) and nudum (naked). (Wiktionary)
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A Name
Nouns meaning a name
nomen, binomen, cognomen, appellation, epithet, agnomen, designation, surname, alias, autonym, eponym, anonym and 18 more...
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Words of Dinosaurology
This quickly got bigger and weirder than originally intended, so now it's housing terms that relate to the study of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. See also Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, Ichthy...
zygopophyses, ziphodont, plesiomorphic, cleidoic, endothermy, ectothermy, viviparous, vertebrae, cervical, dorsal, sacral, caudal and 628 more...
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biologic
protoplasm, microchimerism, organelle, panspermia, housekeeping gene, double crossover, incomplete dominance, bacteriophage, connectomics, antigenic drift, inoculation, punctuated equili... and 138 more...
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Biology
malacological, cladistic, phenetic, phylogenetic, taxonomy, bathypelagic, superfamily, superorder, infraorder, binomen, binominal, quorum sensing and 199 more...
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mollusque A name with no standing in biological nomenclature because it was published without description or indication of the organism intended to bear it. Aug 30, 2008