homonymn.

1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xxv. 100 Those [words] that differ not in termination; as grammatica, the art of grammar, and grammatica, a woman, are not conjugates, but homonyms.

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 350 During the later periods of the Empire there are so many homonyms as to confuse the most attentive investigator.

1876 T. Le M. Douse Grimm's Law §17. 34 A monosyllabic language, indeed, like the Chinese, is but, as it were, a cluster of homonyms.

1892 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 19 290 Homonyms.—The publication of a generic name or a binomial invalidates the use of the same name for any subsequently published genus or species respectively.

1921 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 59 156 Specific names should be rejected when they are homonyms.

1951 G. H. M. Lawrence Taxon. Vascular Plants ix. 213 A name of a taxon is illegitimate and must be rejected if it is a later homonym, that is, if it duplicates a name previously and validly published for a taxon of the same rank based on a different type.

1967 R. E. Blackwelder Taxon. xxii. 463 Priority determines which homonym can be retained as an acceptable name.

1972 W. T. Stearn A. W. Smith's Gardener's Dict. Plant Names (rev. ed.) 13 Similar names applied to different plants are called homonyms. The rejection of later homonyms has caused a number of unavoidable but regrettable name changes.