The words listed below are the common adjectives and other modifiers that repeatedly occur in the scientific names of many organisms.

But sorry, Dan, coinage cannot be claimed; somebody almost always crops up to claim first use of a noun formed from a common adjective.

Also, many of the most common adjectives are irregular.

The Latin name appears -m the common adjective, however, so that one speaks of a "lunar crescent" or a "lunar eclipse."

Some common adjectives have exceptional comparative and superlative forms:

A related term is the adjective gnostikos, "cognitive," a reasonably common adjective in Classical Greek.

The common adjectives are "thermohydraulic", "thermal-hydraulic" and "thermalhydraulic".

Here is a list of a few common adjectives in their four forms:

Here are a few common adjectives that agree only in number:

In one experiment, 72 Yale undergraduates were presented with a list of 40 common adjectives and told to write down the opposite of each word.