A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.
A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.
An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a new name applied to a species or genus already properly named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another species of the same genus; - so used in the system of nomenclature (which see) in which the correct scientific names of certain natural groups (usually genera, species, and subspecies) are regarded as determined by priority.
One of two or more words corresponding in meaning but of different languages; a heteronym.
The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
a meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning.
the full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term.
A word whose meaning is the same as that of another word.
A word or phrase with a meaning that is the same as, or very similar to, another word or phrase.
Any of the formal names for a taxon, including the valid name (i.e. the senior synonym).
Any name for a taxon, usually a validly published, formally accepted one, but often also an unpublished name.
An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with denotation.
One of two or more words (commonly words of the same language) which are equivalents of each other; one of two or more words which have very nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous.
An incorrect or incorrectly applied scientific name, as a new name applied to a species or genus already properly named, or a specific name preoccupied by that of another species of the same genus; - so used in the system of nomenclature (which see) in which the correct scientific names of certain natural groups (usually genera, species, and subspecies) are regarded as determined by priority.
One of two or more words corresponding in meaning but of different languages; a heteronym.
The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
a meaning implied but not explicitly denoted by some word or expression, which may be understood in addition to the explicit primary meaning.
the full set of necessary properties possessed by all the objects within the extension of a term; the intensional meaning of a term, which determines the objects to which the term applies; the intension of a term.