Concept information
Preferred term
avatar
Definition(s)
- One of several forms or manifestations that an entity (object, person, organism, concept, term, etc.) has taken or can take. In nomenclature, its usually applie to a nomen. (Dubois 2005b)
Note
- Etymology: Sanskrit: अवतार (ava-tara), successive incarnation of a divinity
Scope note(s)
- Code: No term
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
- Dubois, A. (2005) Proposed Rules for the incorporation of nomina of higher-ranked zoological taxa in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. 1. Some general questions, concepts and terms of biological nomenclature. Zoosystema, 27 (2): 365–426.
Identifier
- 958
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/FM8-Q08LH54Z-3
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