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Nomen ambiguum Uncommon

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Noun
1

A name which has lost the ability to clearly identify a species because it has regularly been used by different authors to identify different species.

See Also
name identify species
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Rhyming Words
vacuum mutuum triduum vaccuum residuum revacuum menstruum continuum nonvacuum subvacuum bee vacuum individuum autovacuum quasivacuum high vacuum intervacuum ultravacuum subcontinuum pseudovacuum power vacuum
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