单词 | common name |
释义 | common namen. 1. Grammar and Logic. A name or noun which is applicable to each of the members of a class, or to a concept or idea, rather than to a particular individual; = common noun n. Often contrasted with proper name n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > common noun nameOE common name?a1425 common noun1561 appellative1591 commonization1973 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 22 (MED) Of naturale humours bene made spicez of verray apostemez which bene called in comon name flegmounz..Neþerlez, in þair propre namez flegmon herisipila, vdimia, sclirosis or sephiros. 1549 J. Ponet tr. B. Ochino Tragoedie Unjuste Usurped Primacie sig. C.ii This name of Antichrist is not the proper name of any one man, but is a common name to many. 1725 I. Watts Logick i. iv. 86 Names are either common or proper. Common Names are such as stand for universal Ideas, or a whole Rank of Beings. 1855 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Mar. 323/1 Nothing is now more common than proper names are; and, indeed, nothing more proper than common names. 2012 Lang. Resources & Eval. 46 545 Most of the words are built from roots, except the common names and particles. 2. A vernacular name for an organism or group of organisms; esp. such a name contrasted with a scientific Latin name. ΚΠ 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes (title page) The names of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe Duche & Frenche wyth the commune names that herbaries and apotecaries vse. 1653 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 1 Diverse Shires in this Nation give divers Names to one and the same Herb, and that common Name which it bears in one Country, is not known in another. 1757 J. Hill Eden 5/2 Fig-leav'd Hibiscus... Its common Name is Esculent Mallow, the Fruit being eatable..: its proper Name is Hibiscus foliis quinquepartito pedatis calycibus interioribus latere rumpentibus. 1890 J. P. Ballard Among Moths & Butterflies 142 The common name in Florida for this caterpillar is ‘the orange dog’, from a fancied resemblance of its most curious head to that animal. 1970 Amer. Antiq. 35 108/2 The scientific name..is formalized from Latin, and in print it is consistently placed in parentheses following the common name. 2010 Observer 21 Mar. (Guide to Pets) 50/3 The bearded dragon is the common name for seven species of agamid lizards in the genus Pogona. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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