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A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
To the general user of scientific names, in fields such as agriculture, horticulture, ecology, general science, etc., a synonym is a name that was previously used as the correct scientific name (in handbooks and similar sources) but which has been displaced by another scientific name, which is now regarded as correct.
The word may also come from Old French jargon meaning "chatter of birds". [17] Middle English also has the verb jargounen meaning "to chatter", or "twittering", deriving from Old French. [18] The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is the first known use of the term "jargon" in English literature.
Hakea incrassata was first formally described by the botanist Robert Brown in 1830 as part of the work Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae. [4] [5] The only known synonym is Hakea leucadendron as described by Carl Meissner. [6]
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Clearly, a dictionary would not solve the problem, as a dictionary is a report of already known synonyms, and thus is dependent on the notion of synonymy, which Quine holds as unexplained. A second suggestion Quine considers is an explanation of synonymy in terms of interchangeability.
Some of the better known synonyms include: Antiaris africana, Antiaris macrophylla and Antiaris welwitschii. Antiaris toxicaria leaves on twig Coppice, showing young bark In English it may be called bark cloth tree, antiaris, false iroko, false mvule or upas tree, [ 7 ] and in the Javanese language it is known as the upas (meaning 'poison' in ...