Toponym

In geography and cartography, a toponym is a place name, a geographical name, a proper name of locality, region, or some other part of Earth's surface or its natural or artificial feature. Toponymy is the taxonomic study of place names.
See toponymy for a list of related articles.

In linguistics and grammar, toponym is a name derived from a place or a region.
See List of toponyms for a complete listing of names.

In anatomy, toponym is a name of a region of the body, as distinguished from the name of an organ.

In biology, a toponym is a binomial name of a plant.

See also: -onym

External links

• Placename indexes