The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
trivial name
NOUN:
1. A common or vernacular name as distinguished from a specific name, as chimpanzee for Pan troglodytes.2. See specific epithet. 3.Chemistry A common, historic, or convenient name for a substance, derived often from the source in which the substance was discovered, but unsystematic and not used in modern official nomenclature, as sucrose for -D-fructofuranosyl--D-glucopyranoside.
-D-fructofuranosyl-
-D-glucopyranoside.
