been given to a group of ambrosia beetles by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1793. A name that means two different things is a homonym. Since beetles...

used only once (within its group). This is usually the first-published name; any later name with the same spelling (a homonym) is barred from being used...

A homonym is, in the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings. Thus homonyms are...

(/həˈmɒfənəs/). Homophones that are spelled the same are deemed both homographs and homonyms, e.g. the word read, as in "He is well read" (he is very learned) vs. the...

Erasmia, "The terms Albanoi and Arvanitai and the first mention of the homonym people of the Balkans in the 11th century sources", Balkanika Symmikta...

pronunciations Heteronym (literature), imaginary characters created by a poet -onym Homonym Capitonym Homograph Polysemy Mondegreen This disambiguation page lists...

like the Bauhaus diary, and is a play on the English homonym 'deform' and on the French homonym 'difforme' (deformed). Die Form is the primary project...

1871 (= homonym Salacia Hübner, 1823; = Heteroscada Schatz, 1886) Sais Hübner, 1816 Forbestra Fox, 1967 Mechanitis Fabricius, 1807 (= homonym Nereis Hübner...

available name for a taxon is generally the valid name. Junior homonyms in the family and genus group – names of families and genera which have identical spelling...

that orþanc genuinely does mean "cunning" in Old English, so that the homonym Tolkien had in mind was between Sindarin and Old English, that is, translated...

Lucien Goux in 1989, but the genus name he used, Giraudia, was a junior homonym of at least two other animal genera. The genus was renamed Gouxia in his...

given a new rank homonym: names spelled identically, but, in some codes, names spelled similarly, as defined by the code senior homonym (zoology): the first...

Python. Gato Fedorento, their homonym television show, ran for nine seasons. In its original unique surreal humour, the group is known for overusing Portuguese...

origin the a branch based in city of Brasília (Distrito Federal): the homonym CFZ de Brasília. The club from Brasília was founded on August 1, 1999,...

to only one species. If a name is used more than once, it is called a homonym. Stability. Although stability is far from absolute, the procedures associated...

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for development, because the word "good" in Japan is "yaoxi", which is homonym for "Yaoxi" and has the meaning of shining star. On 7 March 2017, after...

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-452-28496-8. In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, the word for four is, unfortunately, an exact homonym for...

an author discovers that a species-group name in use is a junior primary homonym [Art. 53.3] of another species-group name also in use, but the names apply...

senses) in the same entry (that is, under the same headword) and enter homonyms as separate headwords (usually with a numbering convention such as ¹bear...

an author discovers that a species-group name in use is a junior primary homonym [Art. 53.3] of another species-group name also in use, but the names apply...

correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs...

installing, assembling' (the latter borrowed from French). Homograph Homonym Synonym Shibboleth Swofford, Mark (2010). "Chinese Characters with Multiple...

(the two words are actually etymologically cognate and not arbitrarily homonyms). ѣ — Originally had a distinct sound, but by the middle of the eighteenth...

before it was realized that Mittenn's name represented an illegitimate homonym. The moss genus has since been renamed Wijkia H.A. Crum. Mueller 1861,...

but based on a different type; only one of the homonyms is considered a valid designation (see homonym (biology)). Compare to synonym. hydronym: a name...

Walter Redfern summarized this type with his statement, "To pun is to treat homonyms as synonyms." For example, in George Carlin's phrase "atheism is a non-prophet...

country today. When Rotten sings "I use the enemy", it's a deliberate homonym for "I use the NME", or New Musical Express, the British weekly music newspaper...

difficult for Europeans". Like most other languages, Tobian has examples of homonyms but they are not as abundant. Meanings can vary solely on vowel length...

of Culhuacan took the form of a 'bent' or 'curved' hill (a play on the homonym col- in Nahuatl, meaning "bent, twisted", e.g. as if by old age). Some...