OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 2349

vernacular

/vəˈnækjələ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vernáculo
Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
Near-synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal, demotic
There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific…