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vernacular names

vernacular names is the plural of vernacular name.

Meaning of vernacular name

Noun

vernacular name (plural vernacular names)

  1. A name in a vernacular language, distinct from a taxonomic name, that is used to refer to an organism and may, though not always, correspond to a taxonomic name.
  2. A name that does not unambiguously define a substance.

Questions about vernacular names

What is vernacular names the plural of?
Vernacular names is the plural of vernacular name.

Words near vernacular names in the dictionary

  1. vernacular dance
  2. vernacular dances
  3. vernacular dialect
  4. vernacular dialects
  5. vernacular name
  6. vernacular names
  7. vernacular school
  8. vernacular schools
  9. vernacular varieties
  10. vernacular variety
  11. vernacularisation

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vernacular names (page history and authors); vernacular 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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