binomial

Examples of binomial in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web She is credited with naming and cataloging hundreds of native plants in the Hudson River Valley using Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus’ then-new binomial system of botanical nomenclature. Jessica Damiano, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2024 The watermelons grown in the United States were soon subsumed under the same Latin binomial. Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021 Before binomials, names of plants in books were lists or strings of words that formed a kind of nuanced description. James Prosek, New York Times, 16 May 2017

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“Binomial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/binomial. Accessed 3 Oct. 2024.

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