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Appellative
Appellative
a.
Pertaining
to a
common
name
;
serving
as a
distinctive
denomination
;
denominative
;
naming
.
Appellative
a.
Common
, as
opposed
to
proper
;
denominative
of a
class
.
Appellative
n.
A
common
name
, in
distinction
from
a
proper
name
. A
common
name
, or
appellative
,
stands
for
a
whole
class
,
genus
, or
species
of
beings
, or
for
universal
ideas
.
Thus
,
tree
is
the
name
of
all
plants
of a
particular
class
;
plant
and
vegetable
are
names
of
things
that
grow
out
of
the
earth
. A
proper
name
, on
the
other
hand
,
stands
for
a
single
thing
; as,
Rome
,
Washington
,
Lake
Erie
.
Appellative
n.
An
appellation
or
title
; a
descriptive
name
.
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