heteronymous

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, or relating to a heteronym.
  2. Being different words, but having a common relationship, as in the case of brother and sister, which denote siblings.
  3. Heteronymous hemianopsia (blindness in the left side of one eye and the right side of the other eye)

Word forms

heteronymous more heteronymous most heteronymous

Etymology

From heteronym + -ous.

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