Example sentences for: binomials

How can you use “binomials” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In VERBATIM [I, 1 and I, 2], respectively, Roger Wescott and Paul Lloyd, discussed rhyming, rhythmical, or alliterative “word chains,” otherwise known as “coordinates” or “binomials” and “trinomials,” which exist not only in English but in other languages as well.

  • But the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (for binomials in the animal kingdom) does not accept Latin varietal names because it would create too much clutter.

  • Ornithorhynchus (not, as printed, Ornithorhyncus) anatinas is a hybrid of two binomials: the first is the accepted Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, the second, the earlier (by one year) Platypus anatinas, which was discarded because it had already been used for a genus of Coleoptera (beetles).

  • Winkler discovered that the first element of binomials, whether nonsense or not, often begins with a laryngeal or velar phoneme which is formed in the back of the mouth (i.e.


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