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- From: zgilbert@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert)
- Subject: While browsing through the dictionary...
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- Organization: crystallized biology
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:35:49 GMT
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- ... in search of "omphaloskepsis," I came upon the following entry, which
- summarizes the "aarons"/"vaccas"/"rim dwellers" controversy rather neatly.
- (The group between the newbies and the oldbies, for the terminally clueless.)
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- NOMEN DUBIUM n., pl NOMEN DUBIA [New Latin "doubtful name"]
- a taxonomic name that cannot be assigned with certainty to any taxonomic
- group because the description is insufficient for identification and the
- original specimens are lost or destroyed.
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- "insufficient for identification." "lost or destroyed." Heh.
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- I therefore propose NOMEN DUBIA as the name for the whole sick crew.
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- --Zvi
- (Or maybe NOMEN NUDUM is more appropriate...)
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