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polyonymous

[ pol-ee-on-uh-muhs ]

adjective

  1. having or known by several or many names.


polyonymous

/ ËŒ±èÉ’±ôɪˈɒ²Ôɪ³¾É™²õ /

adjective

  1. having or known by several different names
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è´Ç±ôy·´Ç²Ôy·³¾²â noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of polyonymous1

1670–80; < Greek ±è´Ç±ô²âṓn²â³¾´Ç²õ, equivalent to poly- poly- + -ŲԲ⳾´Ç²õ -named, adj. derivative of ónyma, ónoma name; -ous
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Polyonymous, pol-i-on′i-mus, adj. having many names.—n.

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Leg spines of somewhat the same sort are found in the common English gurnard, and in this age of Aquariums and Fisheries Exhibitions, most adult persons above the age of twenty-one years must have observed the gurnards themselves crawling along suspiciously by their aid at the bottom of a tank at the Crystal Palace or the polyonymous South Kensington building.

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Such, for instance, as Charlotte Smith and the Miss Lees are miles above such others as the just-mentioned polyonymous "Rosa," as Sarah Wilkinson, or as Henrietta Mosse-Rouvière.

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Lamium purpureum is not so polyonymous.

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