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The phrase "a common appellation for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a widely recognized name or term for something.
Example: "In many cultures, 'Mother Earth' is a common appellation for the planet we inhabit."
Alternatives: "a popular name for" or "a widely used term for".
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Tyler may have told a version with a vixen (she-fox) as intruder, and Southey later confused vixen with a common appellation for a crafty old woman.
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The most common appellation among these new wines is Coteaux de Languedoc.
The title is an ironic appellation for a brothel; the music is sleazy jazz by Mr. Taylor's former music director, Donald York; most of the action is pantomime.
Instead of selling only wines from single vineyards for $60 to $80 a bottle, it started to offer wines with a regional appellation, for about $40 a bottle.
Upon his death, Godane's Shabaab-proclaimed title was Emir of Harakat al Shabaab al Mujahideen — a grandiloquent appellation for a failed poet who ordered boys killed for watching soccer on TV, calling them un-Islamic.
The then name distinguished the gardens from the Old Spring Gardens at Charing Cross; however Pepys implies that there were both Old and New Spring Gardens at Vauxhall; and indeed Spring Gardens appears to have been a longstanding appellation for a variety of entertainment enterprises.
"Stooge" seems an odd appellation for ElBaradei, who had a combative relationship with the Bush administration.
"Randy," the usual diminutive, is what young Mr. Paul was called growing up, and it would be an excellent appellation for, say, the governor of South Carolina.
… Hence his name entered the argot as an ironic appellation for anyone who thought he knew but didn't.
As meta can mean transforming, this would be an appropriate appellation for these archetypal metazoan developmental genes.
When comparing all original colitis models it becomes obvious that a wide variety of appellation for the most common parameters inflammation, crypt and surface epithelial damage were used (Table 1).
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