appellative
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Now a taxidermied water buffalo head — the ox — watches from above the bar, while the appellative bull is represented across from it in gleaming metal.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Those which, passing out of the appellative into the descriptive, characterize a river as that which runs violently, that which flows gently, or that which spreads widely.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
Again—there are forms such as ang, amb, and, &c., which are merely a strengthening of the roots ag, ab, ad, or at, and which also are found in a number of appellative forms.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
It is however replaced in the New Testament by an appellative.
From The Messiah in Moses and the Prophets by Eleazar Lord
To the root vip place as an appellative the Welsh gwibio, to rove, wander, gwibiau, serpentine course.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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