Chresonymy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chresonymy is a noun meaning A set of various taxa that have been published for a particular species.
Meaning
A set of various taxa that have been published for a particular species.
More Meanings
- A list of all published uses of a taxon name (usually a species name).
Example Sentences
An extensive chresonymy of the name rectirostris can be found in Palmer (1958: 215).
He was not the first to use that spelling and his chresonymy shows both spellings have been used almost equally.
The paleobotanical literature concerned with the western North American Tertiary record would benefit from the use of the bibliographic device of chresonymy.
The unique combination of head characters and bipendulate aedeagus has resulted in considerable chresonymy and greatly broadened the geographical range of the group.
Word Forms
- chresonymies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include synonymy, orthotype, hypotype, taxocenose, hemihomonym, syntype.
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