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homonym
Biology a name for a species or genus that should be unique but has been used for two or more different organisms


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Context will almost always overrule ambiguity, so apart from separating occasional homonymic pairs such as la tour 'tower, castle' and le tour 'ride, trip', le manche 'handle' and la manche 'sleeve', le mode 'method' and la mode 'fashion' and so on, noun genders arguably contribute very little to that aspect of French communication (see Weber, 1999.
Le est de Mars, la est de Venus: understanding and learning French ... by McLauchlan, Alastair / Babel
The fact that Shakespeare's society used the same word to designate these two relations is by this argument no more than a homonymic accident.
Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture, Evolution by Schalkwyk, David / Shakespeare Studies
I knew I couldn't follow through on my threat to take the field and read from my collected works in a fake English accent as a homonymic nod to Andy Kaufman.
Safe at home by Kauffman, Bill / The American Conservative
 
 
 
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