Özet:

How scientific terms should be addressed in general-purpose dictionaries comes to the topics that are often discussed in the theoretical studies in the field of vocabulary. In particular, the definitions of this kind of word existence in general dictionaries have been discussed in various studies in terms of the principles and methods of definition of the dictionary. Although the terms are the subject of the dictionaries in general, the existence of terms in fields such as plant science and animal science in the word of the daily language has brought these dictionaries to a controversial state for the general dictionaries. However, taking into account both the different uses of the language and the principles of vocabulary, there are fundamental differences in the definition of such words in terms of daily language-science language, term- vocabulary concepts and vocabulary types and methods of identification. This study will also focus on how the word existence of natural species (natural kinds) given with the label of plant science (botanics) and animal science (zoology) in the Turkish Dictionary, based on the main differences mentioned, will be assessed in terms of the application of the method of analytical identification, compared to the definitions in the term dictionaries.