In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon. The rule in the International...

Amboinense by Georg Eberhard Rumphius where Rumphius said that coccus was a homonym of coccum and coccus from Greek κόκκος kokkos meaning "grain" or "berry"...

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...

published. Therefore, Hendra's 2002 name stands as a legitimate name, not a homonym. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Govaerts, R. (2004). World...

genus of extinct sharks in the family Chlamydoselachidae, and a junior homonym of Thrinax Konow, 1885, replaced by Proteothrinax Pfeil, 2012 This disambiguation...

genus); he originally proposed the name Zeunera, but this is a junior homonym (with Zeunera Piton 1936 [Orthoptera]), and his replacement is Straatmana...

and the Japanese are superstitious about the number four because it is a homonym for "death" in their languages. In Slavic mythology, the god Svetovid has...

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...

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...

J.Koch 1837, illegitimate homonym not L. 1753 Allium laxiflorum Tausch Allium littoreum Bertol. 1827, illegitimate homonym not Bertol. 1819 Allium margaritaceum...