Meaning of zoönym | Babel Free

Definitions

The common name for a (species of) animal

Equivalents

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 […]”

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