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Examples of homonym
homonym
The Chinese word for fish, she says, is yu, which is a homonym for abundance.
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A further example of a homonym, which is both a homophone and a homograph, is fluke.
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The word for paper, kami, is a homonym for the word for spirit or god.
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The name Hong 10 comes from using a Korean language homonym and an English language pun.
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According to that theory, it was originally shortened to fance then just to the homonym fans.
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There were a surprising number of typos and homonym replacements.
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Another version cites the homonym of the Karluk valley in Altai.
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Consequently a name that is a junior homonym of another name must not be used as a valid name.
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For disambiguating one genus-group name from its homonym, it is important to cite author and year.
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- Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings
- (homonymic) of or related to or being homonyms
- In linguistics, a homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings (in other words, are both homographs and homophones),, Random House Unabridged Dictionary at dictionary. ...
- In biology, a homonym (taxonomic homonym) is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon.
- (strict sense) A word that both sounds and is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning; A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word but has a different meaning, technically called a homophone (same sound) or a homograph (same spelling); A name for a taxon ...
- (homonymic) Having the same form (orthographic/phonetic) but unrelated meaning
- (Homonyms) Two words having identical spellings and pronunciations, but different origins and meanings (i.e. rest repose; rest remainder, left over)
- (Homonyms) Fifty-two quizzes on words that sound alike.
- (Homonyms) Multiple accepted names for the same plant.
