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    her use of the word "queynte" to describe both domestic duties (from the homonym "quaint") and genitalia ("queynte" being the root of "cunt", a vulgar English...
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    princely line. By 1831, Aldridge had temporarily taken the name of Keene, a homonym for the then popular British actor, Edmund Kean. Aldridge observed a common...
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  • British slang verb twat, meaning 'to hit, whack', is probably an unrelated homonym of onomatopoeic origin. Robert Browning famously misused the term in his...
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  • Brennus 3rd century BC (died 279 BC) Gallic (Do not confuse with his homonym) One of the Gallic leaders during the Gallic invasion of the Balkans. Notably...
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    ("mousetrap") is derived from mus ("mouse") and decipula ("trap"), while the homonym word muscipula ("flytrap") is derived from musca ("fly") and decipula....
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  • Smith, 1879 M. ferruginea Friese, 1903 M. ferruginea (King & Exley, 1985) (Homonym) M. ferruginosa Mitchell, 1930 M. fertoni Pérez, 1896 M. fervida Smith...
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    Flora Online Hayashi, Kazuhiko; Yoshida, Seiji; Kato, Hidetoshi; Utech, Frederick H.; Whigham, Dennis F.; Kawanoi, Shoichi (1998). "Molecular Systematics...
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    Erasmia, "The terms Albanoi and Arvanitai and the first mention of the homonym people of the Balkans in the 11th century sources", Balkanika Symmikta...
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    from an attempt to disguise the word "cook". That "cook" and "coke" were homonyms at this time is shown by the fact that Coke's second wife, Elizabeth Hatton...
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    Kālī is the goddess of "Time or death" and the consort of Shiva. The homonym kālá (time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated...
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    indistinguishable within that level. This is called a "constructional homonymity" [sic]. The relevant ambiguity can be resolved by establishing a higher...
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    St John's College, Cambridge (category Grade I listed buildings in Cambridge)
    triple pun. It means "often I remember", "think of me often" and, when spoken (exploiting the homonym souvent me sous vient), "I often pass beneath it" (referring...
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  • "The Fourth Homonym" (Black Widowers series), "The Eye of the Beholder" (Azazel series), "The Quiet Place" (Black Widowers series), "I Love Little Pussy"...
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    variant form Húnn, which is also found close to Honfleur in Honnaville, homonym of the Honneville at Saint-Georges-du-Mesnil. Such a connection between...
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  • in the Western Neo-Syriac (Ṭūrōyo) Lexicon: With Special Reference to Homonyms, Related Words and Borrowings with Cultural Signification. Uppsala: Uppsala...
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    Retrieved 20 January 2022. Tulloch, A. (2017). Understanding English Homonyms: Their Origins and Usage. Hong Kong University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-988-8390-64-9...
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    AER. "Forced or Induced Savings: An exploration into its synonyms and homonyms", 1943, Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat). International Trade...
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  • Cincinnati Observatory. OCLC 224288991. "Guide to Minor Body Astrometry – When can I name my discovery?". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 20 July 2019. "Minor Planet...
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    different variations:《卐》and 《卍》. As the Chinese character wan (卐 or 卍) is homonym for the Chinese word of "ten thousand" (万) and "infinity", as such the...
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    Meat ant (category Taxa named by Frederick Smith (entomologist))
    species cannot be carried through. Clark's C. horni is currently a junior homonym for Kirby's C. horni. One synonym, Iridomyrmex greensladei, was described...
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  • which was initially called (County of the) Ardennes named itself after its homonym capital city founded in 963. From Celtic Lucilem "small", German lützel...
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  • illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z List of bacterial...
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    and genitive plural of masculine and neuter nouns, which are otherwise homonyms (seljáka, seljaka) except that on occasion an "a" (which might or might...
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    Kra–Dai languages without Chinese characters to write (sometimes meaningless homonyms are used to write), others are diverse or very rare Sintic words to use...
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    1753 Species Plantarum. The type species of the genus was designated by Frederick Vernon Coville, who in 1913 chose the first species in Linnaeus' account...
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    history, a past that she has left physically behind. He notes that Sun is a homonym for Son, and that Wheatley intended a double reference to Christ. Wheatley...
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  • improve comprehension, improving word groups, complex vocabularies such as homonyms or words that have multiple meanings, and those with figurative meanings...
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    because multiple synonymous answers may fit or because the clue itself is a homonym (e.g., "Lead" as in to be ahead in a contest or "Lead" as in the element)...
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    species are chosen to be unique and universal (except for some inter-code homonyms); they are in two parts used together: the genus as in Puma, and the specific...
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  • Invertebrate Systematics. 16 (3): 369–448. doi:10.1071/IT01026. Schram, Frederick; Yager, Jill; Emerson, Michael J. (1986-06-05). "Remipedia. Part 1. Systematics"...
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