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species names

species names is the plural of species name.

Meaning of species name

Noun

species name (plural species names)

  1. A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (or generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).
    • Meronyms: genus name, generic name, generic epithet; specific epithet, species epithet, specific name
  2. specific epithet, species epithet, specific name
    • Every animal that has been described by scientists has a scientific name, which consists of both a genus and species name. [...] The genus name is capitalized and given first, and the species name is given next [...]1983, Richard E. White, Peterson Field Guides: Beetles. A Field Guide to the Beetles of North America, page 54

Questions about species names

What is species names the plural of?
Species names is the plural of species name.

Words near species names in the dictionary

  1. species epithet
  2. species epithets
  3. species flock
  4. species group
  5. species name
  6. species names
  7. species problem
  8. species problems
  9. species swarm
  10. species-ism
  11. species-monger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: species names (page history and authors); species name (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.

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