Part 879

Ho*mon"o*mous (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to homonomy.

Ho*mon"o*my (?), n. [Homo- + Gr. &?; law.] (Biol.) The homology of parts arranged on transverse axes. Haeckel.

Hom"o*nym (?), n. [Cf. F. homonyme. See Homonymous.] A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning; as the noun bear and the verb bear. [Written also homonyme.]

Ho*mon"y*mous (?), a. [L. homonymus, Gr. &?;; &?; the same + &?;, for &?; name; akin to E. name.] 1. Having the same name or designation; standing in the same relation; -- opposed to heteronymous.

2. Having the same name or designation, but different meaning or relation; hence, equivocal; ambiguous.

Ho*mon"y*mous*ly, adv. 1. In an homonymous manner; so as to have the same name or relation.

2. Equivocally; ambiguously.

Ho*mon"y*my (?), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. homonymie.] 1. Sameness of name or designation; identity in relations. Holland.

Homonymy may be as well in place as in persons.

Fuller.

2. Sameness of name or designation of things or persons which are different; ambiguity.

Ho`mo*ˆr"gan (?). [Homo- + organ.] Same as Homoplast.

Ho`mo*ou"si*an (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; the same + &?; being, essence, substance.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.

Ho`mo*ou"si*an, a. Of or pertaining to the Homoousians, or to the doctrines they held.

Hom"o*phone (?), n. [Cf. F. homophone. See Homophonous.] 1. A letter or character which expresses a like sound with another. Gliddon.

2. A word having the same sound as another, but differing from it in meaning and usually in spelling; as, all and awl; bare and bear; rite, write, right, and wright.

{ Ho`mo*phon"ic (?), Ho*moph"o*nous (?), } a. [Gr. &?;; &?; the same + &?; sound, tone: cf. F. homophone.] 1. (Mus.) (a) Originally, sounding alike; of the same pitch; unisonous; monodic. (b) Now used for plain harmony, note against note, as opposed to polyphonic harmony, in which the several parts move independently, each with its own melody.

2. Expressing the same sound by a different combination of letters; as, bay and bey.

Ho*moph"o*ny (?), n. [Gr. &?;: cf. F. homophonie.] 1. Sameness of sound.

2. (Mus.) (a) Sameness of sound; unison. (b) Plain harmony, as opposed to polyphony. See Homophonous.

Ho`mo*phyl"ic (?), a. (Biol.) Relating to homophily.

Ho*moph"y*ly (?), n. [Homo- + Gr. &?; a clan.] (Biol.) That form of homology due to common ancestry (phylogenetic homology), in opposition to homomorphy, to which genealogic basis is wanting. Haeckel.

Ho"mo*plas`my (?), n. [Homo- + Gr. &?; anything formed, fr. &?; to form, mold.] (Biol.) Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances.

Hom"o*plast (?), n. (Biol.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoˆrgan.

Ho`mo*plas"tic (?), a. [Homo- + plastic.] Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.

Ho"mo*plas`ty (?), n. [Homo- + plasty.] (Biol.) The formation of homologous tissues.

Ho*mop"la*sy (?), n. [Homo- + Gr. &?; to form, mold.] (Biol.) See Homogeny.

Ho`mo*pol"ic (?), a. [Homo- + pole.] (Biol.) In promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See Promorphology.