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Definition of Polyonyms
1. polyonym [n] - See also: polyonym
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyonyms
Literary usage of Polyonyms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1885)
"To these may be added, as closely connected with the last, that the employment
of Latin polyonyms, even when familiar, imparts to a sentence a decidedly ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1890)
"... (single word terms) over polyonyms (terms consisting of two or more words).
Before making specific recommendations or presenting a final report, ..."
3. Biological Lectures Delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of Wood's (1898)
"... it constitutes no bar to the progress of one who may never have heard the more
common polyonyms. Those who are familiar with those ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... dura and pia occur two and four times respectively, and the authorized polyonyms
are conspicuous by their absence. III. That action of the majority of a ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"... dura and pia occur two and four times respectively, and the authorized polyonyms
are conspicuous by their absence. III. That action of the majority of a ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"... (single word terms) over polyonyms (terms consisting of two or more words").
See p. 232. LIST OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORES ON NOMENCLATURE. 1789. ..."
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