binomial nomenclature

English

Noun

binomial nomenclature (uncountable)

1. (taxonomy) The scientific system of naming each species of organism with a Latinized name in two parts; the first is the genus, and is written with an initial capital letter; the second is some specific epithet that distinguishes the species within the genus. By convention, the whole name is typeset in italics. The genus part is often abbreviated to its initial letter e.g. H. sapiens for Homo sapiens

Related terms

• binomen
• binomial
• binomial name
• binominal
• binominal name
• taxonomy
• species
• species name

Translations

The scientific system of naming each species of organism with a Latinized name in two parts

• Arabic: تَسْمِيَة ثُنَائِيَّة f (tasmiya ṯunāʔiyya)
• Asturian: nome binomial m
• Catalan: nomenclatura binomial f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雙名法／双名法 (zh) (shuāngmíngfǎ), 二名法 (zh) (èrmíngfǎ)

• Czech: binominální nomenklatura f
• Dutch: binomiale nomenclatuur f
• Esperanto: dunoma nomenklaturo
• Estonian: binaarne nomenklatuur
• Finnish: kaksisanainen nimikkeistö
• French: nom binominal (fr) m
• Georgian: ბინომიალური ნომენკლატურა (binomialuri nomenḳlaṭura)
• Greek: διώνυμη ονοματολογία f (diónymi onomatología)
• Hungarian: kettős nevezéktan, binomiális nomenklatúra
• Icelandic: tvínafnakerfi n
• Indonesian: tatanama biologi
• Italian: nomenclatura binomiale f
• Japanese: 二名法 (nimeihō)
• Kazakh: бинарлық номенклатура (binarlyq nomenklatura), биноминалдық номенклатура (binominaldyq nomenklatura)
• Korean: 학명 (ko) (hangmyeong)
• Latin: binomen n, nomen binominale n
• Low German: bioloogsche nomenklatur f
• Occitan: nomenclatura binomiala f
• Persian: نام علمی
• Polish: nomenklatura binominalna f
• Portuguese: nomenclatura binomial f
• Quechua: mitan kamaypaq suti
• Romanian: nomenclatură binară f
• Russian: биномина́льная номенклату́ра f (binominálʹnaja nomenklatúra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: биномијална номенклатура f

  Roman: binomijalna nomenklatura f, dvojno nazivlje n

• Slovene: dvočlensko poimenovanje n
• Spanish: nomenclatura binominal (es) f
• Swedish: binomial nomenklatur, binär nomenklatur
• Telugu: ద్వినామ నామకరణ (dvināma nāmakaraṇa)
• Thai: ระบบการเรียกชื่อสิ่งมีชีวิตแบบทวินาม (rábòp gaan rîak chêu sìng mee cheewít bàep táwí naam)
• Turkish: ikili adlandırma
• Ukrainian: біноміна́льна номенклату́ра f (binominálʹna nomenklatúra)
• Vietnamese: danh pháp hai phần, danh pháp lưỡng nôm
• Walloon: sincieus latén (wa)
• Welsh: enw deuenwol

Further reading

• “binomial nomenclature”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.