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Meaning of myonymy | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
maɪˈɒnɪmi

Definitions

Nomenclature of the muscles.

uncountable

Examples

“Chaussier's idea that the name of each muscle, for example, should accurately indicate all its relations, led him to frame a myonymy which is not only inapplicable to the same parts in many animals, but so ponderous as to be useless ;”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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