nomenclatory
adjEtymology From nomenclator + -y.
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Relating to nomenclature.
- Every conceptual act is so immediately followed as to seem accompanied by a nomenclatory one.1883, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth of Language, page 139:
- As to the name, there is no reason to change it; Scalpellidae was already used by Pilsbry in 1907, and the generic name Pollicipes must be dropped, according to the nomenclatory rules, so that nothing is gained by the change proposed by Annandale.1917, Theodor Mortensen, Observations on Protective Adaptations and Habits, Mainly in Marine Animals:
- Derived terms
- nomenclatorial, nomenclatorially