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    (/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...
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    topped with a variety of condiments, ranging from the savory (such as sour cream or cottage cheese), to the sweet (such as apple sauce or sugar), or they...
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    of the story of Amnon and Tamar. Some interpreters have noted that the homonym levav (לֵבָב leváv) means "heart", and the verbal form of l-v-v (ל־ב־ב‎...
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    genus); he originally proposed the name Zeunera, but this is a junior homonym (with Zeunera Piton 1936 [Orthoptera]), and his replacement is Straatmana...
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    meaning "pipe" or "tube" and refers to the hollow branches of S. vulgaris. Homonym Syringa Tourn. ex Adans. is a heterotypic synonym of Philadelphus. Lilacs...
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    cultivars, the main differences being in the position and extent of the cream or white markings. Some leaves are almost entirely white, pink or yellow...
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  • Thumbnail for Thylacodes arenarius
    (Linnnaeus, 1758) Vermetus arenarius var. minor Sacco, 1896 (junior primary homonym) Vermetus dentifer Lamarck, 1818 (synonym) Vermetus gigas Bivona in Philippi...
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  • Thumbnail for Nian gao
    to eat nian gao during this time of the year because nian gao (年糕) is a homonym for "higher year" or "grow every year" (年高), which means "a more prosperous...
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    yellow-green ("gold") colored leaves or with leaf variegation (either white/cream or yellowish edges or centers). Variegated plants very often give rise to...
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  • Thumbnail for Grevillea mcgillivrayi
    with linear to strap-like leaves, and cylindrical clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers, the style sometimes turning pink with age. Grevillea macgillivranyi...
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  • Thumbnail for Allium pendulinum
    Tepals are white, each with three thin prominent green veins; anthers cream; ovary at flowering time green. The Plant List Kew World Checklist of Selected...
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  • Thumbnail for Cortinarius sublargus
    renamed it C. largiformis in 1944 as it too was a homonym. The basidiocarp (mushroom) has a white to cream cap that can be sticky when wet and grows to 15 cm...
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    Greater Mexico City. Officially, the name corresponds exclusively to the homonym neighbourhood, Ciudad Satélite, founded circa 1957. But over time, its...
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    also used choto (var. chotera, chotaco) in the same sense. The word is a homonym as it is also synonymous with "senile" when used as "He/she is chocho/chocha"...
    93 KB (12,647 words) - 03:53, 14 October 2024
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    Among the differences between Pampas, Toetoe has a drooping flower head, a cream coloured plume, and the leaves do not break when tugged firmly. Toetoe also...
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    published, Donk in 1949 proposed that Clavaria Stackh. be rejected as a homonym of Clavaria Fries and that the latter name be retained as a nomen conservandum...
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  • Thumbnail for Common torpedo
    meaning that Torpedo Duméril, 1806 (often cited in catalogs) is a junior homonym of Forsskål's name and cannot be used. Forsskål included only a single...
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    nonsense to see how well Lennon has brought it off. While some of his homonyms are gratuitous word play, many others have not only double meaning but...
    183 KB (19,662 words) - 02:33, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pleioblastus
    they can become invasive. The species Pleioblastus variegatus (green and cream stripes), and P. viridistriatus (green and yellow stripes) have gained the...
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    used in certain countries, e.g., Romania, to distinguish from the endonym/homonym for Romanians (sg. român, pl. români). In Norway, Romani is used exclusively...
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  • Runglish. Both words illustrate the issues with "-ea-". Words "cream" and "cram" are homonyms in Runglish: Крем, "krem" word may refer both to creamy goods...
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    Amboinense by Georg Eberhard Rumphius where Rumphius said that coccus was a homonym of coccum and coccus from Greek κόκκος kokkos meaning "grain" or "berry"...
    154 KB (16,397 words) - 20:18, 15 October 2024
  • the number "1000" was printed on the note at 45°. The word "kos′ar'" (homonymic meaning is "mower") can also be referred to another money slang expression...
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  • Thumbnail for Toxicoscordion nuttallii
    a bulb-forming herb up to 75 cm tall. One plant can have as many as 60 cream-colored flowers. "Toxicoscordion nuttallii". Germplasm Resources Information...
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  • Pinocchio Huber & Carvalho, 2019, but this name turned out to be a junior homonym that had been used before, for the harvestman genus Pinocchio Mello-Leitão...
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  • sides are black. There is a pale yellowish or creamy white lateral line and cream-coloured dorsolateral line. Iris is dark coppery black. Diet is varied and...
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  • Thumbnail for Conus imperialis
    between 40 mm and 110 mm. The color of the thick shell is yellowish white or cream, with numerous interrupted revolving lines and spots of dark brown and two...
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  • Thumbnail for Cucurbita
    genus include biscuits, bread, cheesecake, desserts, donuts, granola, ice cream, lasagna dishes, pancakes, pudding, pumpkin butter, salads, soups, and stuffing...
    121 KB (10,828 words) - 00:28, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boletellus ananas
    Elias Magnus Fries in 1838. However, Fries's name is an illegitimate later homonym (compare with Boletus coccineus, named by Bulliard in 1791), and Singer's...
    24 KB (2,642 words) - 02:00, 6 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Luteostriata abundans
    (Platyhelminthes : Tricladida : Terricola) with a taxonomic revision of homonyms of Geoplana marginata Schultze & Müller and a reinterpretation of Notogynaphallia...
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