misnominal

Definitions

Being a misnomer.

rare

Examples

“.For a similar reason⟳ many of the peninsulas are named islands. Is not this feature peculiar to Irish nomenclature? By no means. "Portland Isle" in Dorsetshire (South England) is no island at all: and ''gulf," in the nomenclature of southern Europe, is frequently a misnomer of this description. Every language has little misnominal vagaries […]”

“The varied enumeration of these Official titles is either fallacious or misnominal.”

“However, since the substance is not derived from a rice plant⟳, the court acknowledged that the use⟳ of the word "rice" in connection with it could be considered misnominal.”

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