What is the second part of a scientific name for an organism?

This is a crossword puzzle about Biological Classification. The word is 14 letters long. The 3rd letter is an "e", maybe, but I'm not sure. Please help!

What is the second part of a scientific name for an organism?
Biologists, for some reason, have never been able


to agree on what to call the second word in the name of a species. It has been called the species


name, the trivial name, the species epithet, the


trivial epithet, etc. The problem is that the full name of a species has to include two words, the


name of the genus it belongs to, and the name of


the particular species, OF THAT GENUS, that it


belongs to. The second word, whatever it is, does


not name any species if it is used by itself. The


name of a human is Homo sapiens, but the word


sapiens could be used to name species of any


other genus, also. Thus if you say the species


of an organism is sapiens you haven't named any


particular species unless it is clear from the rest


of the context that you are specifically referring to


the sapiens that is in the genus Homo. It happens


that sapiens is not a common second word in


organism names. Others are, however. The word


pallidus (-a, -um), meaning pale, had by 1961 been


used as a name for 107 different kinds of spiders


alone. No doubt it has been used for scores of


other animals, as well.
Reply:speciess
Reply:It is genus, speciesspecies is the 2nd part





I don't know about the 14 letters
Reply:Remember this Acronym:


King Philip Came Over For Great Sex


K=Kingdome


P=Phylum


C=Class


O=Order


F=Family


G=Genus


S=Species





Most things are just genus and species. Like Eschericia coli (bacteria) the Eschericia is genus and coli is species.
Reply:Species