Poecilonymy
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 The use of several names for the same thing in the same document. uncountable
"Stated in technical linguistic terms, in this treatise poecilonymy is avoided; e. g., instead of taenia hippocampi in one place, corpus fimbriatum in another, and fimbria in a third, the last is consistently employed and the others given as synonyms."
Example
More examples"Stated in technical linguistic terms, in this treatise poecilonymy is avoided; e. g., instead of taenia hippocampi in one place, corpus fimbriatum in another, and fimbria in a third, the last is consistently employed and the others given as synonyms."
Etymology
From poecilo- + -onymy.
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