单词 | nomen confusum |
释义 | nomen confusumn. Chiefly Taxonomy. A Latin name that is based on a mixture of more than one species, etc. (cf. nomen ambiguum n., nomen dubium n.). Also more generally: a confusing name, a word for something that gives the wrong impression. ΚΠ 1917 F. L. Butters in Rhodora 19 203 This seems to be a clear case of a nomen confusum, which should be rejected under the international rules. 1920 Jrnl. Ecol. 8 130 Twenty or thirty years ago, the word ‘formation’ was frequently used in a..loose way.., resulting in its abandonment by Warming (in 1896) and others as a nomen confusum. 1936 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 23 611 Several hundred [Linnaean binomials]..will on analysis be found to be based on mixtures, and thus fall in the limbo of synonymy under the heading of nomina confusa. 1950 Mind 59 314 A priori probability is a nomen confusum and should be dropped. 1988 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 75 1133 Jablonski..rejected the name S. biglandulosum as a nomen confusum. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1917 |
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