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trivial name

2. Chemistry A common, historic, or convenient name for a substance, derived often from the source in which the substance was discovered, but unsystematic and not used in modern official nomenclature, as sucrose for β-D-fructofuranosyl-α-D-glucopyranoside.

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triv′ial name`

1. the species name that follows the genus name in taxonomic classification.

2. the common or unscientific name of an organism or a chemical compound.

[1775–85]

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I give the Latin on account of the savoriness of the trivial name. And pray what more can a reasonable man desire, in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, than a sufficient number of ears of green sweet corn boiled, with the addition of salt?

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The trivial name callyspongineA was given to compound 1 (Fig.

SHORT COMMUNICATION - Functionalized Alkylated Pyridines from the Red Sea Sponge Callyspongia crassa (Porifera, Callyspongiidae) as Antitumor Agents

One could conceivably--were one playing stupid, trivial name games--make a slightly better, though still unsupportable, case in suggesting that Robbins was Mozart to Balanchine's Haydn.