Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word TAUTONYM
TAUTONYM
Definitions of TAUTONYM
- (biology) A binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison.
- (linguistics) A word or term made from two identical parts or syllables, such as bonbon or dada.
- An absolute synonym.
Number of letters
8
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using TAUTONYM in a Sentence
- Other terms that are occasionally used include cloning, doubling, duplication, repetition, and tautonym when it is used in biological taxonomies, such as Bison bison.
- For this reason the transfer of the species to Persicaria by John Kunkel Small in 1903, which used the tautonym, is invalid.
- Arctostaphylos uva-ursi — kinnikinnick (does not look tautonym, but Arctostaphylos means "bear grape" in Greek and uva-ursi means "bear grape" in Latin).
- In past editions of the zoological code, the term tautonym was used, but it has now been replaced by the more inclusive "tautonymous names"; these include trinomial names for subspecies such as Gorilla gorilla gorilla and Bison bison bison.
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