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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

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

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