polyonymous
Americanadjective
adjective
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- polyonymy noun
Etymology
Origin of polyonymous
1670–80; < Greek polyṓnymos, equivalent to poly- poly- + -ōnymos -named, adj. derivative of ónyma, ónoma name; -ous
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Polyonymous, pol-i-on′i-mus, adj. having many names.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
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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