Zoonym

Quick meaning: Zoonym is a noun meaning (linguistics) The common name for a (species of) animal.

Meaning

(linguistics) The common name for a (species of) animal.

Example Sentences

ln favour of their special relations with the front-Asian civilization there speaks not only the term knjiga but the zoonym opica as well.

By contrast, the zoonym mockingbird denotes the bird species Mimus polyglottus, a bird which imitates the cries or the notes of other birds, and lives in southern North America, Central America […]

In a study of considerable interest, he claimed to find a correlation between the offensive use of an anima's name and its position in the cultural taxonomy: it is not so much the animal's negative characteristics as its position with respect to humans that determines the choice of zoonym for an insult.

Word Forms

• zoonyms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zoon, zoonite, zoonule, monophage, zootoponym, zooid.

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