binomial nomenclature

n.
The scientific naming of species whereby each species receives a Latin or Latinized name of two parts, the first indicating the genus and the second being the specific epithet. For example, Juglans regia is the English walnut; Juglans nigra, the black walnut.

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n.

The scientific naming of species whereby each species receives a Latin or Latinized name of two parts, the first indicating the genus and the second being the specific name.

a system of naming organisms, devised by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (1707 — 1778), that employs two Latin names, the first being the genus and the second the species to which the organism belongs.

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