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nomen ambiguum

nomen ambiguum noun: a name which has lost the ability to clearly identify a species because it has regularly been used by different authors to identify different species.

Noun

nomen ambiguum (plural nomina ambigua)

  1. A name which has lost the ability to clearly identify a species because it has regularly been used by different authors to identify different species.

Forms of nomen ambiguum

pluralnomina ambigua

Questions about nomen ambiguum

What does nomen ambiguum mean?
Nomen ambiguum means a name which has lost the ability to clearly identify a species because it has regularly been used by different authors to identify different species.
What part of speech is nomen ambiguum?
Nomen ambiguum is a noun.
What is the plural of nomen ambiguum?
The plural of nomen ambiguum is nomina ambigua.

Words near nomen ambiguum in the dictionary

  1. nomen
  2. nomen abstractum
  3. nomen acti
  4. nomen actionis
  5. nomen agentis
  6. nomen ambiguum
  7. nomen appellativum
  8. nomen concretum
  9. nomen confusum
  10. nomen correctum
  11. nomen deminutivum

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