polyonymous

polyonymous
polyonymy, n.
/pol'ee on"euh meuhs/, adj.
having or known by several or many names.
[1670-80; < Gk polyónymos, equiv. to poly- POLY- + -onymos -named, adj. deriv. of ónyma, ónoma NAME; see -OUS]

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