species name (English, noun)
expansion: species name (plural species names)
Senses:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: 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).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: specific epithet, species epithet, specific name
Forms:
form: species names
tags: plural