A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
A descriptive linguistic survey.
A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
A person or thing that evokes memories.
A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
An atavism.
An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout
A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.