How to pronounce “protonym”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (zoology, taxonomy) The first legitimate name of a taxon, on which the currently accepted name is based.
• (prescriptive, uncommon) The first/original entity after which another entity is named without the entities being related. If the entities are related, then the original entity is the eponym of the subsequent entities.

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