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    (/həˈmɒfənəs/). Homophones that are spelled the same are both homographs and homonyms. For example, the word read, in "He is well read" and in "Yesterday, I...
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    bhüt /bʱʊt/ , meaning 'Bhutanese', was mistakenly confused for a near-homonym bhut /bʱut/ meaning 'ghost'. In Assam, the pepper is also known as bih...
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    Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 1 June 2024. Kang is homonym with multiple meaning like mountain white... Albinia 2008, p. 288. Freeman...
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    junior homonym. However, since neither of the two taxa so named have been considered to belong to the genus Cimex after 1899, the senior homonym is no...
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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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  • encyclopedia. They did so believing that the name V. angustifolia was a later homonym, and thus illegitimate. Indeed, the name "Viola angustifolia" had been...
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    Rani of Jhansi (category Queens consort of India)
    Queen of Jhansi, of Vrindavan Lal Verma, 1946, which inspired the 1953 homonym film The Tiger and the Flame. Nightrunners of Bengal, a 1951 novel in English...
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    to only one species. If a name is used more than once, it is called a homonym. Stability. Although stability is far from absolute, the procedures associated...
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    (the two words are actually etymologically cognate and not arbitrarily homonyms). ѣ — Originally had a distinct sound, but by the middle of the eighteenth...
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    Schiede. Consequently, the name I. jalapa is often seen as an invalid junior homonym referring to I. purga, in particular in sources older than 1989 (when the...
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