Meaning of zoönym | Babel Free
ˈzoʊ.ə.nɪmEquivalents
Examples
“ln favour of their special relations with the front-Asian civilization there speaks not only the term knjiga but the zoonym opica as well.”
“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.”
“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 […]”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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