The difference between mushrooms and toadstools is purely a matter of nomenclature, not biology.
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Nomenclature
//nə(ʊ)ˈmɛŋ.klət͡ʃə//
Synonyms for "nomenclature" (16 found)
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Noun(1 words)
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Related words (8)
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1 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 46 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَسْمِيَة noun (set of names or terms)
Belarusian
2 entries- наменклату́ра noun (set of names or terms)
- намэнкляту́ра noun (set of names or terms)
Bulgarian
1 entries- номенклату́ра noun (set of names or terms)
Catalan
1 entries- nomenclatura noun (set of names or terms)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 命名法 noun (set of names or terms)
Czech
1 entries- nomenklatura noun (set of names or terms)
Danish
1 entries- nomenklatur noun (set of names or terms)
Dutch
1 entries- nomenclatuur noun (set of names or terms)
Esperanto
1 entries- nomenklaturo noun (set of names or terms)
Estonian
1 entries- nomenklatuur noun (set of names or terms)
Finnish
1 entries- nimistö noun (set of names or terms)
French
1 entries- nomenclature noun (set of names or terms)
Galician
1 entries- nomenclatura noun (set of names or terms)
Georgian
1 entries- ნომენკლატურა noun (set of names or terms)
German
1 entries- Nomenklatur noun (set of names or terms)
Greek
2 entries- νομενκλατούρα noun (set of names or terms)
- ονοματολογία noun (set of names or terms)
Hebrew
1 entries- נוֹמֶנְקְלָטוּרָה noun (set of names or terms)
Hindi
1 entries- नामकरण noun (set of names or terms)
Hungarian
1 entries- nómenklatúra noun (set of names or terms)
Irish
1 entries- ainmníocht noun (set of names or terms)
Italian
1 entries- nomenclatura noun (set of names or terms)
Japanese
1 entries- 命名法 noun (set of names or terms)
Kazakh
2 entries- атаулар noun (set of names or terms)
- номенклатура noun (set of names or terms)
Khmer
1 entries- សមញ្ញា noun (set of names or terms)
Korean
1 entries- 명명법 noun (set of names or terms)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- номенклатура noun (set of names or terms)
Macedonian
1 entries- номенклату́ра noun (set of names or terms)
Malayalam
1 entries- നാമകരണം noun (set of names or terms)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- nomenklatur noun (set of names or terms)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- nomenklatur noun (set of names or terms)
Occitan
1 entries- nomenclatura noun (set of names or terms)
Polish
2 entries- nazewnictwo noun (set of names or terms)
- nomenklatura noun (set of names or terms)
Portuguese
1 entries- nomenclatura noun (set of names or terms)
Romanian
1 entries- nomenclatură noun (set of names or terms)
Russian
1 entries- номенклату́ра noun (set of names or terms)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- ainmeachadh noun (set of names or terms)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nomenklatúra noun (set of names or terms)
- номенклату́ра noun (set of names or terms)
Slovak
1 entries- nomenklatúra noun (set of names or terms)
Slovene
1 entries- nomenklatura noun (set of names or terms)
Spanish
1 entries- nomenclatura noun (set of names or terms)
Swedish
1 entries- nomenklatur noun (set of names or terms)
Tagalog
1 entries- kangalanan noun (set of names or terms)
Turkish
1 entries- terimbilgisi noun (set of names or terms)
Ukrainian
1 entries- номенклату́ра noun (set of names or terms)
Uzbek
1 entries- nomenklatura noun (set of names or terms)
Vietnamese
1 entries- danh pháp noun (set of names or terms)
Sample sentences
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What's the difference between nomenclature and taxonomy?
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It would evidently be utterly impracticable to throw the whole traditional nomenclature overboard and create a totally new one.
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We will have a quiz on binomial nomenclature next week.
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