Appellative

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[n] identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others
[adj] inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"
[adj] pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun

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