Figure of Speech; Symbolic, Not Literal
This page is the CodyCross answer for the clue below from Fauna and Flora, Group 171, Puzzle 3 (Binomial Nomenclature).
Question is: Figure of Speech; Symbolic, Not Literal
and the answer is: METAPHOR
Word Meaning:
METAPHOR — (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word, phrase, concept, or set of concepts to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word, etc., that is used.
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