trivial name

It is the same with science and its trivial names.

The point of this is not the trivial name involved, but the fact that I remember it so clearly.

As the trivial name has been used in literature for a long time, this is yet not always the case.

If I use its other trivial name, eugenol, most people will understand.

Before much was known about the structure, trivial names were the only way to identify compounds.

What a trivial name for creatures with such preternatural intelligence!

Trivial names are much better as memory aids as well.

Otherwise the common or trivial name may be used, often derived from the source of the compound (see below).

For the expert in the field, trivial names are short, convenient and an efficient means of communication.

Polysaccharides have been given trivial names that reflect their origin.

Generally, trivial names are not useful in describing the essential properties of the thing being named.

(For example, a trivial name such as white metal can mean various things.)

Many commonly used polymers, such as those found in consumer products, are referred to by a common or trivial name.

Money plant is the trivial name of several plants:

I give the Latin on account of the savoriness of the trivial name.

Long live the tried and trusted trivial names!

In organic chemistry, some trivial names derive from a notable property of the thing being named.

However, the trivial name can be potentially confusing.

These include compounds based on octadehydrocorrin, which has the trivial name corrole.

The name lives on as a trivial name.

Many trivial names pre-date the institution of formal naming conventions.

Can only the EU trivial name and the English equivalent be used?

All elements that have been isolated have trivial names.

A partial list of trivial names of various pyrimidines exists.

While no one on the commission would speak publicly, one member expressed alarm at the seemingly trivial name change.