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noun (synonymies)
- The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
- A system of synonyms.
- (botany) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to a particular taxon, except the correct name)
- (botany) The state of not being a correct name, of being a synonym
::In 1924 this name was reduced to synonymy.
- (zoology) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)
Translations: Etymology: synonymia, a synonym
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