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199 The naming of organisms (and plant communities)<br />

teletype: (zool., unoff.) a type specimen whose description reads like a<br />

report in the New York Stock Exchange and has about as much<br />

usefulness (!).<br />

template: (palaeo. bot., unoff.) all of the categories of organ species that<br />

are necessary to complete the conceptual re-assembly of a wholeplant<br />

species.<br />

tentative species: (vir.) a virus species of which an ICTV Subcommittee is<br />

uncertain with regard to the genus or family assignment.<br />

ter.: see teratological specimen.<br />

terata: (obsol.) divergences from the type of a genus; monsters.<br />

teratological specimen, [ter., terat.]: an abnormal specimen or a<br />

monstrosity.<br />

teratology: the study of abnormalities or monstrosities.<br />

teratotype: (zool., unoff.) a type based on an abnormality or monstrosity.<br />

term: (bot., prok.) of a word used to designate a morphological or<br />

anatomical structure in contra-distinction to “name” as used in the<br />

Code.<br />

termination: of a word, the ending; an inflection; the part of a word added<br />

to a Greek or Latin stem when the word is inflected.<br />

ternary: composed of three items.<br />

ternary combination: (1) (bot., prok.) any combination (q.v.), consisting of<br />

the binary name of a species followed by a term denoting rank and<br />

by an infraspecific epithet. (2) (obsol., bot.) cases where a term<br />

denoting rank was either often omitted or represented by some<br />

typographic device.<br />

ternary hybrid: (cult. pl.) a hybrid resulting from crosses among three<br />

taxa.<br />

ternary name: a trinomen (q.v.).<br />

teste: according to, especially of verbal testimony received; see also fide.<br />

text, official: see official text.

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