common name

English

Noun

common name (plural common names)

1. (taxonomy) The name by which an organism or group of organisms is known to the general public.

   Synonym: vernacular name

   Hypernym: alias

   Coordinate terms: scientific name, taxonomic name

   Near-synonym: trivial name

   • 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:

     From the point of view of biology, a bird has both a scientific name and a common name.

2. (chemistry) A name that unambiguously identifies a substance but is not the IUPAC systematic name.

   Coordinate terms: trivial name, vernacular name; systematic name

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common,‎ name.

Translations

a name by which an organism is known to the general public

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 俗名 (zh) (súmíng)

• Czech: obecné jméno
• Finnish: yleiskielinen nimi; kansanomainen nimi
• French: nom vernaculaire (fr)
• German: Trivialname (de) m
• Polish: nazwa zwyczajowa f, nazwa popularna f
• Portuguese: nome comum (pt) m, nome popular m, nome vernáculo m
• Spanish: nombre común (es) m
• Swedish: trivialnamn (sv) n