common name
common noun
noun Grammar.
a noun that may be preceded by an article or other limiting modifier and that denotes any or all of a class of entities and not an individual, as man, city, horse, music.
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| common noun | |
| —n | |
| grammar Compare proper noun a noun that refers to each member of a whole class sharing the features connoted by the noun, as for example planet, orange, and drum | |
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Common_name
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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| Main Entry: | common name |
| Part of Speech: | n |
| Definition: | the non-scientific name by which a species of plant is known, cf. scientific name |
| Example: | Scientific names often become the common names, especially through use by gardeners. |
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