The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The term " wild type " allele is sometimes used to describe an allele that is thought to contribute to the typical phenotypic character as seen in " wild " populations of organisms, such as fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster ).

The term array is often used to mean array data type, a kind of data type provided by most high-level programming languages that consists of a collection of values or variables that can be selected by one or more indices computed at run-time.

The term is also used, especially in the description of algorithms, to mean associative array or " abstract array ", a theoretical computer science model ( an abstract data type or ADT ) intended to capture the essential properties of arrays.

The term abstract data type can also be regarded as a generalised approach of a number of algebraic structures, such as lattices, groups, and rings.

Burns coined the term Sasquatch, which is from the Halkomelem sásq ’ ets (), and used it in his articles to describe a hypothetical single type of creature reflected in these various stories.

It is possible that the Roman term basterna, denoting a type of wagon or litter, is derived from the name of this tribe, which was known, like many Germanic tribes, to travel with a wagon-train for their families.

The length of the term can depend on several factors, including the type of work ( e. g. musical composition, novel ), whether the work has been published, and whether the work was created by an individual or a corporation.

The term " conspiracy theory " is itself the object of a type of conspiracy theory, which argues that those using the term are manipulating their audience to disregard the topic under discussion, either in a deliberate attempt to conceal the truth, or as dupes of more deliberate conspirators.

Some products log all sites that a user accesses and rates them based on content type for reporting to an " accountability partner " of the person's choosing, and the term accountability software is used.

A definition is a passage that explains the meaning of a term ( a word, phrase, or other set of symbols ), or a type of thing.

: This term is used both for conventional p – n diodes used to monitor temperature due to their varying forward voltage with temperature, and for Peltier heat pumps for thermoelectric heating and cooling .. Peltier heat pumps may be made from semiconductor, though they do not have any rectifying junctions, they use the differing behaviour of charge carriers in N and P type semiconductor to move heat.

: The term stabistor refers to a special type of diodes featuring extremely stable forward voltage characteristics.

Due to this trend, the term " draug " has come to be used to describe any type of revenant in Nordic folklore.

Damascus steel was a term used by several Western cultures from the Medieval period onward to describe a type of steel created in India and used in swordmaking from about 300 BC to 1700 AD.

Many mathematicians reserve the term equation exclusively for the second type, to signify an equality which is not an identity.

The term " frigate " ( Italian: fregata ; Spanish / Catalan / Portuguese / Sicilian: fragata ; Dutch: fregat ; French: fregate ) originated in the Mediterranean in the late 15th century, referring to a lighter galleass type ship with oars, sails and a light armament, built for speed and maneuverability.

As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome by the 20th century became largely synonymous with other terms for the " little people ", such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the " domestic spirit " type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.

The term " Geiger counter " is commonly used to mean a hand-held survey type meter, however the Geiger principle is in wide use in installed " area gamma " alarms for personnel protection, and in process measurement and interlock applications.

The term analytic function is often used interchangeably with “ holomorphic function ”, although the word “ analytic ” is also used in a broader sense to describe any function ( real, complex, or of more general type ) that is equal to its Taylor series in a neighborhood of each point in its domain.

In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be " text-only ".

To this day, shinny ( or shinney ) ( derived from Shinty ) is a popular Canadian term for an informal type of hockey, either on ice or as street hockey.

It is also a term used by pilots and controllers to indicate the type of flight plan an aircraft is flying, such as an IFR or VFR flight plan.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

The use of term bean to refer to species other than Phaseolus thus remains.

In some countries, the term bean can mean a host of different species.

The first known usage of the term blue whale was in Melville's Moby-Dick, which only mentions it in passing and does not specifically attribute it to the species in question.

The term " calf " is also used for some other species.

In English the term " calf " is used by extension for the young of various other large species of mammal.

In this process, the former species is oxidized and the latter is reduced, thus the term redox.

The term Chlamydia infection can also refer to infection caused by any species belonging to the bacterial family Chlamydiaceae.

* Coagulase-negative staphylococcus, term to describe all staphylococcus species that are not staphylococcus aureus

Colloquially, the common chimpanzee is often called the chimpanzee ( or " chimp "), though technically this term refers to both species in the genus Pan: the common chimpanzee and the closely related bonobo, formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee.

Often the species of mafic minerals is included in the name, for instance, hornblende-bearing granite, pyroxene tonalite or augite megacrystic monzonite, because the term " granite " already assumes content with feldspar and quartz.

# a genus ( or family ): A pre-defined term that includes the species defined as a subtype.

The term " genetically modified organism " does not always imply, but can include, targeted insertions of genes from one species into another.

Fux applied the term " species counterpoint ", which entails a series of steps whereby students work out progressively more elaborate combinations of voices while adhering to certain strict rules.

Given these, a new term Anthropocene, is specifically proposed and used informally for the latest part of this epoch since approximately synchronous lithospheric evidence, or more recently atmospheric evidence, of human impacts have been found on the Earth and its ecosystems ; these impacts may be considered of global significance for future evolution of living species.

The term warm-blooded is a colloquial term to describe animal species which have a relatively higher blood temperature, and maintain thermal homeostasis primarily through internal metabolic processes.

He was the first to give a biological definition of the term species.

In a comment on the arguments of the 1830s, William Whewell coined the term uniformitarianism to describe Lyell's version of the ideas, contrasted with the catastrophism of those who supported the early 19th century concept that geological ages recorded a series of catastrophes followed by repopulation by a new range of species.

* Juno ( plant ), a term for bulbous iris species from subgenus Scorpiris, an independent genus Juno in some classifications

The term orca is preferred by some to avoid the negative connotations of " killer ", and because, being part of the family Delphinidae, the species is more closely related to other dolphins than to whales.

In common use the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, especially those of the genus Macropus, red kangaroo, antilopine kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo and western grey kangaroo.

The greatest innovation of Linnaeus, and still the most important aspect of this system, is the general use of binomial nomenclature, the combination of a genus name and a second term, which together uniquely identify each species of organism.

No other species of organism can have this same binomen ( the technical term for a binomial in the case of animals ).