学名 (xué míng) — scientific name (e.g., Latin name of a species); formal school name (as opposed to a nickname at home)
Definition
Two unrelated meanings: the Latin 'scientific name' of a species (biology), and your 'formal name used at school' (as opposed to 小名, a nickname used at home).
noun
scientific name (e.g., Latin name of a species)formal school name (as opposed to a nickname at home)
Examples
- ，学名。Zài shēng wù kè shàng, wǒ men xué xí le zhè zhǒng zhí wù de xué míng.In biology class, we learned the scientific name of this plant.
- ，学名。Zài xué xiào lǐ, dà jiā dōu jiào wǒ de xué míng.At school, everyone calls me by my formal school name.
- 学名，。Wǒ de xué míng shì lǐ huá, xiǎo míng shì huá huá.My formal school name is Li Hua, and my nickname is Huahua.
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