to eat nian gao during this time of the year because nian gao (年糕) is a homonym for "higher year" or "grow every year" (年高), which means "a more prosperous...
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1858 †Fagus aspera (Berry) Brown, 1944 †Fagus aspera Chelebaeva, 2005 (jr homonym) †Fagus atlantica Unger, 1847 †Fagus attenuata Göppert, 1855 †Fagus aurelianii...
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Emperor's birthday. "Sugarcane" (Chinese: 甘蔗; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kam-chià) is a near homonym to "thank you" (Chinese: 感謝; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kám-siā) in the Hokkien dialect...
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Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) Code and discarded C. australis as a junior homonym—in 1788, Gmelin had used the same binomial name to describe the black nunbird—to...
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to species. The fruits have many culinary uses including pumpkin pie, biscuits, bread, desserts, puddings, beverages, and soups. Although botanical fruits...
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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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pronounced identically, which helps differentiate words that would otherwise be homonyms, as in mane (silent ⟨e⟩ strategy), main (digraph strategy) and Maine (both...
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wedding, and funerals by the Hakka people. The name of cake, fagao, is a homonym for "cake which expands" and "prosperity cake" as "fa" means both "prosperity"...
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zoological sense or illegitimate in the botanical sense due to senior homonyms already having the same name. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U...
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Chinese red envelopes should not be confused with this term, as they are homonyms. Ampaw is made with cooked white rice (usually leftovers). It is dried...
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