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homonym [ˈhɒmənım] N

homonym

同形同音异义词 tóngxíng tóngyīn yìyì cí

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With the homonym song, he got a rather average result at the contest (20th out of 23 countries). en.wikipedia.org

For them, prince and prints are homonyms as. en.wikipedia.org

The statement is laced with word play, mostly homonyms, to the point where the long speech is generally meaningless. en.wikipedia.org

There can also be double homonyms (same genus and species). en.wikipedia.org

List of gelechiid genera is full of junior synonyms, homonyms etc. en.wikipedia.org

The use of two different strategies relates to the function of distinguishing between words that would otherwise be homonyms. en.wikipedia.org

Or again, these two could be simple homonyms. en.wikipedia.org

If the two meanings are unrelated, as in the word "pen" meaning both "writing instrument" and "enclosure", they are considered homonyms. en.wikipedia.org

It is also quite possible for the two different davae to be just homonyms. en.wikipedia.org

Names with the same form but applying to different taxa are called homonyms. en.wikipedia.org

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