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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    Documenting domestication: new genetic and archaeological paradigms. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24638-6. Retrieved...
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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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    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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    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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    ("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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    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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    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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    Allium vineale in the CalPhotos photo database, University of California, Berkeley "Allium vineale". Plants for a Future. "Allium vineale" in Weeds of Australia...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    languages. Antonym is an antonym of synonym. Some linguists use the term homonym for both phenomena. Some authors use the term compositional semantics for...
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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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    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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    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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    in 1822, but because the name was already in use, it is an illegitimate homonym; this species is now known as Thelephora anthocephala. Despite its coral-like...
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    2023. Retrieved 19 August 2013. 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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    words 東, 德 and 多 all had the same initial sound. The Qieyun classified homonyms under 193 rhyme classes, each of which is placed within one of the four...
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