chresonymy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The unique combination of head characters and bipendulate aedeagus has resulted in considerable chresonymy and greatly broadened the geographical range of the group."
- "I have subdivided the listing of denominations into synonymy sensu stricto and chresonymy (i.e. the subsequent usage of the synonyms) and in each of these two subdivisions I separate the correct and the incorrect usages."
- "He was not the first to use that spelling and his chresonymy shows both spellings have been used almost equally."
- "The paleobotanical literature concerned with the western North American Tertiary record would benefit from the use of the bibliographic device of chresonymy."
- "An extensive chresonymy of the name rectirostris can be found in Palmer (1958: 215)."
- "Page numbers in the chresonymy citations refer to the first or, in some cases, the primary use of the name in the work in question (always the first use in the case of new names)."
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
heterochresonymy
orthochresonymy