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
In many instances a word meaning river or runner remained the proper name of one river, without ever rising to the dignity of an appellative.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
After the manner of nouns appellative; in a manner to express whole classes or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
This familiar appellative had followed him into the army.
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
In the above Sansc. var, to moisten, to water, is contained, as I take it, the root of the Finnic wirta, a river, the only appellative I can find for the following.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
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