Etymology

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Today it means: Used to form names of taxonomic ranks of hybrids Full definition →

Ancient Greek νόθος
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromνόθος“crossbred”
  2. English todaynotho-

From Ancient Greek νόθος (nóthos, “crossbred”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekνόθος all →

nothogeneric

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