Word of the Day - nomenclature

nomenclature

/nə(ʊ)ˈmɛŋklətʃə//ˈnəʊmənˌkleɪtʃə/
noun
mass noun
1 The devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline.
1.1 The body or system of names used in a particular specialist field.
1.2 formal The term or terms applied to someone or something.

Origin
Early
17th century: from French, from Latin nomenclatura, from nomen ‘name’ +
clatura ‘calling, summoning’ (from calare ‘to call’).

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Fred found fun in finding the small diatoms under his microscope. It was always a struggle to get their correct names, even with the very scientific structure of binomial nomenclature. A species like his current find had long been called Biddulphia aurita but new studies of "molecular phylogeny", using techniques not available before, link it to a different genus, making Odontella aurita a more accurate name. There's lots of literature to read with arguments both ways!