nominal taxon
Zoology
noun
(The concept of) a taxon as formally denoted by a name which is available according to the rules of nomenclature, for which a corresponding type is or may be assigned, and which a taxonomist may either recognize as valid or place in synonymy with another.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Systematic Zoology.
- painted woman
- painter
- painterish
- painter-like
- painterliness
- painterly
- painter's brush
- painters' brush
- painter's colic
- painters' colic
- painter's mussel
- painters' mussel
- painter-stainer
- paint film
- paint frame
- paint gun
- pain threshold
- paint-in
- paintiness
- painting
- painting cloth
- paintingness
- paint job
- paint kettle
- paintless