Word.ws English Dictionary

phytonymy

phytonymy noun: the nomenclature of plants.

Noun

phytonymy (uncountable)

  1. The nomenclature of plants.
    • We cited a goodly number of synonyms, some of them may seem superfluous, but I thought of linguists interested in phytonymy.1993, J. A. J. Verheijen, Glossary of Taxonomic-Indonesian Plant Names, page 4
    • Furthermore, adding to the many linguistic identities of the Caribbean isles, the British isles have likewise a composite stratification in phytonymy.2008, Renato Tomei, Forbidden Fruits: The Secret Names of Plants in Caribbean Culture, →ISBN

Origin of phytonymy

From phyto- + -onymy.

Questions about phytonymy

What does phytonymy mean?
Phytonymy means the nomenclature of plants.
What part of speech is phytonymy?
Phytonymy is a noun.

Words near phytonymy in the dictionary

  1. phytons
  2. phytonutrient
  3. phytonutrients
  4. phytonym
  5. phytonyms
  6. phytonymy
  7. phytooestrogenic
  8. phytopalaeontologist
  9. phytopalaeontologists
  10. phytopaleontologic
  11. phytopaleontological

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phytonymy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “phytonymy.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phytonymy. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.