1.- Description In science, a common, vulgar, vernacular, trivial, or popular name is any name by which a species or other concept is known, and which is not the scientific name.
2.-a principal taxonomic category that ranks above class and below kingdom
3.-biology, taxonomy) A scientific name at the rank of species, with two terms: the generic name (generic epithet, the genus of the species) and the specific name (a term used only in zoology, never in botany, for the second part of a binomial) or the specific epithet (the term always used in botany, which can also be used in zoology).