The semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning.
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Examples for "synonymy"
Examples for "synonymy"
1The decision to reduce C. lignicola to synonymy under C. herbarum was confirmed.
2The ideas in your introduction regarding synonymy are precious; would that our linguistic purists were imbued with them!
3Further studies are needed to test the possible synonymy of these species pairs or to determine if other genetic markers permit their discrimination.
4Most of the groups where two or more cultivars had the same SSR fingerprint included known peach mutants or possible synonymies.
5Her very title is wrong; as she does not even mention synonymous Scottish words: it ought to be called not British, but English Synonymy.
1That was when, apropos of nothing, he made his remark about the synonymousness of God and the Devil in Africa.
Translations for synonymity