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    inval.; a rejected name is a nomen rejiciendum or nom. rej.; a later homonym of a validly published name is a nomen illegitimum or nom. illeg.; for...
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  • 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...
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  • of the signifier, "signification." For the standard English word is a homonym of the Afro-American vernacular word. And, to compound the dizziness and...
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  • frustrate the reader; syntax is ambiguous, punctuation is sparse, and puns, homonyms, and nonsense words become an integral part of conversation. Edward Dorn...
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  • pertaining adjective being سويدي suwaydī "Swedish", which happens to form a homonym with a pre-existing Arabic name Suwayd "black, dark, swarthy" (c.f. Sudan)...
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  • Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (category University of California, Berkeley alumni)
    deconstructs the French word commentaire into French and English components and homonyms (comment, taire, commentary, tear, etc.). In her preface for the book,...
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    Suillus spraguei (category Taxa named by Miles Joseph Berkeley)
    reported that the name Boletus pictus was illegitimate because it was a homonym, already being used for a polypore mushroom described by Carl Friedrich...
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    Hence, the Chinese character for Jun in Lee's name was changed to the homonym 振 instead, to avoid naming taboo in Chinese tradition.[citation needed]...
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    Documenting domestication: new genetic and archaeological paradigms. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24638-6. Retrieved...
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  • immersive. The titles reintroduce McCarty's earlier work with text. Using homonyms, McCarty plays with the meaning of language by imbuing the work with a...
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    Quash the Demons' Revolt Xuannü takes Yuan Gong (袁公; Mr. Yuan—Yuan being a homonym for "gibbon"), a white interconnected-arm gibbon not only exceptionally...
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    involving technology; in keeping with her stories' themes, her name is a homonym for LED. Despite her nerdish trappings, Ellie is every bit as sexually...
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    persisted until as late as 1957, but it was ultimately made invalid as a later homonym at the species level. The current species name comes from Walter T. Swingle...
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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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    México: Limusa Editores, 2000. Roemer, A. (2000). (Likewise, there is a homonym playwright publication by Victor Hugo Rascon Banda [2007], based on Roemer's...
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    This recent slang is mostly pure Vietnamese, and almost all the words are homonyms or some form of wordplay. Some slang words may include profanity swear...
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    September 24, 2009. Calflora taxon report, University of California @ Berkeley, Toxicoscordion fremontii (Torr.) Rydb. Fremont's star lily Biota of North...
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    proposed by Miles Joseph Berkeley when transferring his earlier Tubercularia albida to the genus Tremella (to avoid creating a homonym of Tremella albida Huds...
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    known as Polyporus suberosus), and so Bulliard's name was an illegitimate homonym. In 1821, Elias Magnus Fries published the species as Polyporus nidulans...
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    Albany County, New York, explained that the species name was a taxonomic homonym (Boletus viscosus was already in use for another species named by Ventenat...
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    name for the fungus was debated for some time, as the name Guepinia is a homonym (pointed out by Fries in 1828), because it had been used by Toussaint Bastard...
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    Flammulina velutipes. Since this made the new Agaricus texensis an unusable homonym, Gabriel Moreno and colleagues published the new name Agaricus deserticola...
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    derived from Kala, which is mentioned quite differently in Sanskrit. The homonym kālá (time) is distinct from kāla (black), but these became associated...
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    Trefaut (2012). "Amazonella Fouquet et al., 2012 (Anura:Bufonidae) junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1931 (Acari:Unionicolidae): proposed replacement...
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  • since in German the nati- in national is approximately pronounced Nazi. A homonymic term Nazi was in use before the rise of the NSDAP in Bavaria as a pet...
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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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    —origin 1940s: from Greek akron 'end, tip' + onoma 'name,' on the pattern of homonym. "acronym". Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition. Houghton...
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    was first described by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1860 as Clavaria umbrina. This name was an illegitimate homonym. Pier Andrea Saccardo described it as...
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    description in English Calflora taxon report, University of California @ Berkeley, Calochortus tolmiei Hook. & Arn. Hairy Star Tulip, Tolmie star tulip,...
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    Frost, however, is an illegitimate homonym of a name previously used for a different species by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1851. Charles Horton Peck published...
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