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toponymous

toponymous adjective: synonym of toponymic.

Adjective

toponymous (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of toponymic.
    • This study investigates whether eponyms and toponyms are being discarded for medically-descriptive terms and if this rate of change is influenced by the offensive nature of the disease name. Twenty-two eponymous and toponymous diseases were paired with their medically-descriptive synonym(s) and...2018, Christina Kazzi, Sarah White, Mark Butlin, “Changes in the use of eponyms and toponyms to name diseases. Abstract presented at conference”, in Conference event of the Macquarie University–Fudan...
    Synonyms:
    toponymic

Synonyms of toponymous

Origin of toponymous

From toponym + -ous.

Questions about toponymous

What does toponymous mean?
Toponymous means synonym of toponymic.
What part of speech is toponymous?
Toponymous is an adjective.

Words near toponymous in the dictionary

  1. toponymically
  2. toponymics
  3. toponymies
  4. toponymist
  5. toponymists
  6. toponymous
  7. toponyms
  8. toponymy
  9. Topoozian
  10. Topoozians
  11. topophilia

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