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(biology) A binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison..
And that would mean a species named Leucanthemum leucanthemum, with the genus and species epithet the same (a tautonym), which is a total no-no in botany.
The chapter on reduplication - "flip-flopping higgledy- piggledy through the riffraff" - differentiates rhyming compounds like bigwig, hotshot, ragtag, sci-fi from repetitions called tautonyms, such as bye-bye, so-so, rah-rah, as well as from ricochet words in which the repeated element is modified: chit-chat, roly-poly, shilly-shally.
Use tautonym when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tautonym means (biology) A binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison..
Common synonyms include reduplicant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
And that would mean a species named Leucanthemum leucanthemum, with the genus and species epithet the same (a tautonym), which is a total no-no in botany.
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