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

Hence appellative words bearing any affinity with the names of the deceased are presently abolished.

From The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

In the name of another lake in Russia, the Karduanskoi-ilmen, it seems to occur as an appellative.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert

This appellative is one belonging to a sacred place of pilgrimage sacred to Ayonija, whose miraculous birth was thus brought about.

From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Inman, Thomas

From the verb comes the appellative ffrwd, a torrent, corresponding with the Bohem. praud, of the same meaning.

From The River-Names of Europe by Ferguson, Robert