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trinomina

trinomina is the plural of trinomen.

Meaning of trinomen

Noun

trinomen (plural trinomina)

  1. A scientific name at the rank of subspecies: an expansion of a binomial name (a genus and a species) combined with the name of the subspecies; for example Anopheles gigas formosus or Homo sapiens sapiens.
    • The subspecies (trinomen) is the only infraspecific taxon so recognized by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature... However, the category of subspecies has not been widely used in entomology, because, in most cases, the level of population differentiation within a species is not clearly...1993 May 10, Ke Chung Kim, Bruce A. McPheron, Evolution of Insect Pests: Patterns of Variation, John Wiley, →ISBN, page 458
    Synonyms:
    ternary name, three-part name, trinomial name

Questions about trinomina

What is trinomina the plural of?
Trinomina is the plural of trinomen.

Words near trinomina in the dictionary

  1. trinomialism
  2. trinomialist
  3. trinomialists
  4. trinomially
  5. trinomials
  6. trinomina
  7. trinominal
  8. trinominals
  9. trinonadecanoate
  10. trinonadecanoin
  11. trinonadecenoin

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