The part of a scientific name designating a species or lower division of a genus. For example, in Cyranthus mackenii var. cooperi, mackenii is the species epithet and cooperi is the variety epithet.
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Specific epithet
The second word in the botanical binomial is the specific epithet. It has meaning or it has no meaning of its own, subject to the same lack of rules, abundance of rules, and avoidance of rules as found above.
specific epithet The second word in a binomial (scientific) name, following the genus name.
Spinosa Epithet meaning with spines, prickles or thorns.
Spinose/spinosissima With many spines.
Spittle bug Frog hoppers that suck sap from plant stems and produce saliva.
syriacus - species/epithet (is normally shown in all lower case italic letters). A species is the second part of the scientific name. They are a group of virtually identical, usually interbreeding plants.
(L. species, particular kind) a group of interbreeding individuals, not interbreeding with another such group, being a taxonomic unit including two names in binomial nomenclature, the generic name and specific epithet, ...
Linnaeus organized his flora by genus, streamlined differentiae to what he considered the most essential terms, and designated a nomen triviale, a single-word descriptor (or epithet) unique within the genus, for every single taxon of plant.
Using Rudbeckia hirta as an example, Rudbeckia identifies the genus to which this plant and its close relatives belong; the second word, hirta, is known in botanical jargon as the specific epithet.
A: The full name of this tree is X Chitalpa tashkentensis, and it's a combination of the scientific names of its two parents. The specific epithet ('tashkentensis') identifies the city in Uzbekistan where the hybrids were created, ...
category ranking below a family and above a species and generally consisting of a group of species exhibiting similar characteristics. In taxonomic nomenclature the genus name is used, either alone or followed by a Latin adjective or epithet, ...
And I couldn't help notice that the bees and butterflies preferred those asters to the much "prettier" flowers in front of them. The specific epithet of nova angliae was my eye-opener here. But of course! These plants belonged here! ...
Rikugien, for example, a large stroll garden in Tokyo, employs the six classic themes of poetry as its motif, laying out a series of 88 scenes derived from poetic epithets and themes that were favored by the owner.
 See also: Plant, Genera, Botanical, Flower, Variety
  
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