English Dictionary

vernacular

/vəˈnækjələ/

adj

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. / Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.

She spoke in vernacular language.

意味（1）

Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific nomenclature does not clarify the species, since it is now being revised.

意味（2）

Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.

a vernacular disease

意味（3）

(architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

意味（4）

(art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.