homonymous adjective. [hǝ'mɒnɪmǝs] E17.
[from Latin homonymus from Greek homōnumos, formed as HOMO- + onuma name: see -NYM, -OUS.]
1. Employing the same name for different things, equivocal, ambiguous. E17.

2. Having the same name. M17.

3. Having the same written or spoken form but differing in meaning and origin. L19.

4. Zoology. Of animal horns: such that the right and left horns have right-handed and left-handed spiral cores respectively. E20.

■ homonymously adverb M18.

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