The SPECIALIST Lexicon

class_type - taxonomic

Lexical entries that contain variants with class_type=taxonomic are those with a variant that is a term from biological taxonomy. These terms may be combinations of genus and species terms (e.g. “Homo sapiens”), abbreviations of such (“H. sapiens”) or other taxonomic subdivisions, like families or clades. Most typically these lexical variants are capitalized, and are tagged. The syntax is class_type=taxonomic|arg1.

where:

  • The argument of the taxonomic|arg1 codes are:
    • arg1: base form

  • Example:
    •     class_type=taxonomic|Bacterium