Toponym

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Toponym \Top"o*nym\, n.
     1. A name of a place.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. a name, as in the binomial name of a plant, based on, or
        derived from, a place name, or based on the location of


        the thing named.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  toponym
       n : the name by which a geographical place is known [syn: {place
           name}]